NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’
The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s…
Starlink rival Qianfan hits satellite milestone, but is it too slow and costly?
China’s Qianfan network has hit a national milestone by placing over 200 broadband satellites in orbit, but there…
W2246f sits 1.2 billion light years away with an old, quiet central kiloparsec and a still-star-forming disk, but MUSE found no recent collision or active nucleus to explain the galaxy’s split personality
W2246f looks calm in exactly the place astronomers expected trouble. The spiral galaxy sits about 1.2 billion light…
SpaceX Stock May Look Cheap In 10 Years, Says Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale
Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box ahead of the company’s Nasdaq debut, Lonsdale argued that concerns about SpaceX’s valuation…
Report Says SpaceX Plans to Launch Space Data Center Test by Late 2027
Reuters reported Tuesday that “two people who attended investor presentations” ahead of the SpaceX IPO have leaked exciting…
Where Not to Look in the Search for ET
There’s a question at the heart of SETI that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It isn’t whether aliens…
Annular solar eclipse 2027 —everything you need to know about the ‘ring of fire’ on Feb. 6
An annular solar eclipse will occur on Feb. 6, 2027, when the moon’s cone-shaped central shadow will not…
Reading the Moon in X-rays
Here’s something that might surprise you. Despite being our closest companion in space, despite the missions, the moonwalks,…
Hidden Solar Storms May Be Lighting Japan’s Skies With Massive Red Auroras
Low-latitude aurora observed on June 28, 2024, in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. Credit: Tomohiro M. Nakayama Unusually tall red…
At the University of Twente, Davoud Jafari’s team flew 3D-printed nickel-titanium micropillars on a parabolic flight where gravity vanished for seconds at a time, testing whether an electric field alone could do the job everyone assumed only gravity could — lift boiling bubbles off a scorching surface before they smother it
A research team at the University of Twente has taken one of thermal engineering’s hardest problems off the…
MIT engineers just collapsed the oldest tradeoff in satellite propulsion — one tank, two thrusters, and a quiet rewrite of how cubesats are designed
A small satellite the size of a briefcase may soon become one of the most flexible spacecraft NASA…
How SpaceX fever & Fed rate hike fears are impacting markets
00:00 Speaker A You’re getting this economic data. Yeah. It keeps coming in better than expected. Existing home…