Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets
Astronomers have discovered the first signs that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets. Scientists had…
NASA’s next major space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, is expected to find roughly 100,000 new transiting planets in just five years — along with the largest catalogue ever assembled of rogue worlds drifting through the galaxy without a star to orbit
According to NASA’s December 2025 announcement that construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope had been completed,…
Unistellar blasts 15% off all smart telescope prices in Father’s Day sale
Ever caught your dad looking wistfully up into the night sky? Now could be the time to help…
Shenzhou-21 crew returns to Earth; taikonaut brings back apple from space, wishing future missions safe
Taikonaut Zhang Lu, commander of the three-member Shenzhou-21 crew, is out of the Shenzhou-22 spaceship’s return capsule after…
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the Earth, but the energy carried in that sunlight was generated in the sun’s core tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago — bouncing through the sun’s interior for that entire time before finally escaping its surface and making the 8-minute trip across space
Sunlight takes about eight minutes and twenty seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth. That figure…
Satellite Pics Show China Is Building Launch Pads Near Nuclear Missile Silos: Never Seen Anything Like It
In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears…
Don’t Miss May’s ‘Blue Moon’ Rise Tonight — Exact Times For Saturday
Topline Although the Blue Moon officially becomes full in the early hours of Sunday, May 31, the key…
There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years wide and almost completely empty, and if our galaxy sat at its centre, we might not have discovered that other galaxies existed until well into the twentieth century.
In the direction of the constellation Boötes there is a roughly spherical region of space, around 330 million…
Bezos’ Blue Origin launches investigation into rocket explosion
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is assessing damage to its launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test…
The Sun Just Let Out The Longest Radio Burst We’ve Ever Seen : ScienceAlert
The Sun is not known for being quiet. It blasts out energy equivalent to 100 billion nuclear bombs…
China’s Shenzhou 21 astronauts return to Earth after being briefly ‘stranded’ (video)
China’s record-breaking, and very eventful, Shenzhou 21 astronaut mission has come to an end. The Shenzhou 21 trio…
MAVEN Spacecraft Finds New Plasma Squeezing at Mars
A cloaked alien invasion force is approaching Earth and coming up on Mars. The first officer looks through…