Help us shape the Guardian Climate Forum 2026 | Environment
The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of our age. But it is also a story…
SpaceX launches 10,000th active Starlink satellite in low Earth orbit
Almost seven years after starting to build out its broadband constellation in low Earth orbit, SpaceX now has…
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary | Physics
The launch in the 1950s of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, played an unexpected but important role…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Europe’s disappearing birds are a symptom of a broken food and farming system
Bird populations in North America have dropped by 15 per cent in the last 40 years, according to…
Was Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on Asteroid
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XRISM spacecraft watches as monster black hole awakens to fire cosmic bullets into starburst galaxy
The joint NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission XRISM has spotted a monster black hole awakening…
How a Melting Glacier in Antarctica Could Affect Tens of Millions Around the Globe
Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which…
Will Rapid Dual-Continent Launches Redefine Rocket Lab’s (RKLB) Vertically Integrated Space Narrative?
Earlier this month, Rocket Lab completed its “Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed” mission from New Zealand,…
Astronomers May Have Seen Colliding Black Holes Trigger a Blaze of Light : ScienceAlert
A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have…
Enrichment by the first stars in a relic dwarf galaxy
Flaugher, B. et al. The dark energy camera. Astron. J. 150, 150 (2015). Article ADS Google Scholar Beers,…
Neutron star’s collision with a black hole took a strange path
When a black hole and a neutron star spiral toward collision, theory predicts that their orbit should become…