APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids
Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical observatory in…
NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescope
The Swift space observatory has been in operation since 2004. It specializes in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most…
Three black holes appear to be feeding inside a single galaxy seen 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, and the two nearest its centre are close enough to spiral together within roughly 700 million years — though the paper reporting them calls it evidence, not a confirmed triplet
In astronomy, a broad emission line in hydrogen with no matching broad line in the forbidden oxygen doublet…
Starship Passes Two Engine Tests Before Orbital Flight
When could Starship launch? Sources disagree on the timing. Tesla Oracle writes that, if the remaining tests go…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio…
Rocket Lab and MIT are preparing a privately funded probe to plunge through Venus’s clouds looking for organic chemistry linked to possible life. It will get only about five minutes to take measurements before descending into increasingly lethal conditions — and the entire mission has been estimated at under $10 million.
Rocket Lab’s planned Venus probe is built around an uncomfortable trade: the spacecraft can be small and comparatively…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
offbeat Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost The team behind the…
Researchers turned data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites into a giant scanner for Earth’s upper atmosphere, mapping a hard-to-observe region around 500 kilometres above the planet
Representative Image (AI-generated) A network of Starlink satellites designed primarily for internet connectivity is giving scientists a new…
How will NASA’s astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?
HOUSTON — What does NASA’s astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring…
JWST finds early galaxies may be 4 times more massive than thought
Astronomers have found that some of the largest galaxies in the early universe contained many more small stars…
Scientists have found the fastest star in our Galaxy. And it could tell them how fast our central black hole is spinning
Astronomers have found the fastest known star in our home Galaxy, the Milky Way. The star, named S301,…
SpaceX sends 27 Starlink satellites to orbit on 100th Falcon rocket launch of the year (photos)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for…