California Startup Wants to Send Thousands of Mirrors to Orbit For the Dumbest Reason Ever
A new startup has come up with a way to sell sunlight on demand, proposing a constellation of…
Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol
Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still…
New look at the stars around the Milky Way's centre – ESO.org
New look at the stars around the Milky Way’s centre ESO.orgThe Most Detailed Image of the Milky Way’s Heart…
How to witness Venus and Saturn conjunction?
Footage released by NASA on Wednesday reveals aurora ribbons shimmering above Earth, while a thin orange line of…
Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension
The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
Forever Twilight? Satellite Mirrors Could Create Artificial Daylight From Orbit, Impeding Astronomical Observations
If a future catastrophe were to wipe out our civilization from the Earth’s surface, would there be a…
NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos…
Galileo’s Handwritten Notes Discovered in Rare 16th-Century Astronomy Book
A historian examining a rare Renaissance-era astronomy book has uncovered handwritten notes believed to belong to Galileo Galilei,…
The first image of comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Juice probe has been revealed
During its journey to Jupiter, the Juice probe, launched in 2023, has taken images of the interstellar comet…
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Astronomers Say They Have Solved One of Saturn’s Greatest Mysteries
Saturn eclipsed by Titan as seen from the Cassini probe – credit, NASA/JPL-Caltech A neat feat of calculation…
NASA announces overhaul of Artemis lunar program amid technical delays
New York/Cape Canaveral, Florida – NASA on Friday abruptly said it was shaking up its Artemis lunar program…