Campaign for dark sky status launched at event
The push is on for the dark skies above Central Otago to be recognised internationally before one of…
Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket
TOKYO — Japan’s experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as…
An exoplanet 124 light-years away may harbour a global ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Webb has produced two tentative hints of dimethyl sulfide—a gas produced mainly by marine microorganisms on Earth—but independent analyses dispute whether the molecule has been detected at all, leaving scientists divided over what the data mean.
A planet called K2-18b, 124 light-years away in the constellation Leo, has become the most closely watched world…
China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it – Stuff
China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it StuffChina lands…
Legacy Survey of Space and Time Launches with Record Camera
The cosmos is about to get a close-up of appropriately epic proportions. Resting on a Chilean mountaintop, the…
A Rapidly-Growing Black Hole in a Nearby Galaxy Could Provide a Window Into the Early Universe.
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) recently made a…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hauls Starlink satellites to orbit
A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books. A Falcon 9 vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg…
We tend to assume life needs a star to begin, but a 2025 study found that some moons carried into deep space by planets expelled during supernova explosions could preserve subsurface oceans for billions of years — heated not by sunlight, but by the repeated gravitational flexing of their orbits.
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit…
Japan’s space agency conducts first test flight for experimental reusable rocket
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Astronomers Uncover Hidden Structures Surrounding Orion Nebula
Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) s and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST),…
FCC approves first Reflect Orbital satellite
TOKYO — The Federal Communications Commission has given its approval for a satellite that will test the ability…
Non-gravitational acceleration indicative of cometary activity of near-Earth object
Orbital fit The orbital solution was estimated through a least-squares fit52 to the available optical and radar astrometry.…