In the Atacama Desert, astronomers live and work in a James Bond villain lair
Despite its desert location, life at the Residencia is surprisingly comfortable: residents have access to abundant food and…
Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award
Last month, Landsat’s very own Jim Irons won the prestigious William T. Pecora Award. Irons, now an emeritus…
Private space tourism is taking off – but laws on outer space are from another era
By Anna Marie Brennan* of From left – entrepreneur Lauren Sanchez, former NASA scientist Amanda Nguyen, singer Katy…
APOD: 2026 June 11 – The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant
APOD: 2026 June 11 – The Mermaid Nebula Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
NASA’s Proposed EVE Mission Aims to Solve the Radius Valley Mystery
A debate has been raging amongst planetary scientists for over a decade – why are there so few…
Atmospheric asymmetries in WASP-121 b revealed by rotational transits detected with JWST
Observations and data reductionsJWST/NIRSpec G395H observations The JWST observed the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121 b starting 145 min before the…
Private space tourism is taking off – but laws on outer space are from another era
By Anna Marie Brennan* of From left – entrepreneur Lauren Sanchez, former NASA scientist Amanda Nguyen, singer Katy…
SpaceX Dragon shuttle captures ‘ethereal’ view of Southern Lights
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir has shared a time-lapse video of spectacular Southern Lights from the SpaceX Dragon Shuttle.…
The popular claim that space tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, repeated in science articles for over fifteen years, is based on a single 2009 detection of one organic molecule in one specific dust cloud at the centre of the Milky Way, and the actual story behind the finding is more interesting than the version that has been circulating
The molecule is called ethyl formate. Its chemical formula is C2H5OCHO, with eleven atoms arranged as an ester.…
Iceye, a Finnish company that builds radar satellites that see through clouds and darkness, just hit a 10-billion-euro valuation — and the buyers weren’t venture funds chasing the next SpaceX, but European governments preparing for a world without American satellite intelligence
Iceye’s satellites photograph the Earth through cloud, smoke, and total darkness, bouncing radar pulses off the ground from…
ESA Awards Initial €700M Contract for Next-Gen Sentinel-1 Satellites
Credit: ESA / ATG Medialab The European Space Agency has awarded Thales Alenia Space in Italy a contract…
Elon Musk’s $1.8 trillion SpaceX listing is no longer about space
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