Earth’s Magnetic Field Weak Spot Expands Dangerously
Earth’s Magnetic Field. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 A weak zone…
China’s year-end space sprint – SpaceNews
On this episode of Space Minds, SpaceNews China correspondent Andrew Jones joins host Mike Gruss to unpack China’s…
Watch Europe’s upcoming PLATO exoplanet hunter spread its ‘wings’ (video)
Europe’s next planet-hunting spacecraft just spread its “wings” in preparation for launch. PLATO‘s twin solar panels, which will…
Scientists discover a new way to destroy a star, unlike anything they’ve seen before
Astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen way of destroying a star. The revelation came as a team of astronomers…
Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experiment, jettison old HDTV camera during spacewalk outside ISS
Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor…
Phoebus: keeping the smallest molecule in the Universe contained
Enabling & Support 16/10/2025 1139 views 20 likes In brief Progress is being made on the Phoebus project’s…
HyImpulse Promises to Save European Launch, 600 kg at a Time
German rocket builder HyImpulse announced on 16 October that it had secured €45 million in new funding to…
Poem Praising Saladin From 1181 May Contain Evidence Of A Rare Galactic Supernova
A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising…
Epoch of Reionization: Astronomers close in on signal from ‘one of the most unexplored periods in our universe’
Long before starlight filled the cosmos for the first time, the young universe may have been simmering, according…
Aurora Borealis Might Be Seen In These 15 States Thursday Night
Topline The northern lights have a higher than usual chance of appearing for viewers in some northern states,…
Comet Lemmon’s ghostly tail haunts the skies above England (photo)
Award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury has captured a stunning view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) shining in the sky…
Largest Oort Cloud comet ever detected shows “surprising” activity
Astronomers are reporting a detailed analysis of the largest Oort Cloud comet ever detected – “C 2014 UN271.”…