University of Cambridge objects to East West Rail route over ‘severe’ risk to Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory
The University of Cambridge has warned that only changing the path of East West Rail can protect its…
This is the largest and most detailed image of our Milky Way — with over 60 million stars and 50 exoplanet systems
In 2025, the European Space Agency dark universe detective spacecraft Euclid turned its attention to the heart of…
Less than a third of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards, meaning humanity currently knows more about the surface of Mars than about the seabed covering two thirds of its own planet
The Seabed 2030 project has lifted global ocean-floor coverage from 6% to approximately 28.7% since its launch in…
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea
The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via…
Some of the water sitting in your glass is older than the Sun having formed inside interstellar clouds billions of years before the solar system existed
A glass of water looks like one of the most local things in the world. It comes from…
Why Mars May Remain Uninhabitable for Centuries
Realistic image of a completely terraformed Mars. Credit: Daein Ballard Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle,…
GW250114 reveals signatures of post-merger black-hole horizon
Oshita, N., Ma, S., Chen, Y. & Yang, H. Probing direct waves in black hole ringdowns. Preprint at…
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
In a written response to the report, the chief of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Directorate, Lori Glaze, said the…
We finally have an opening date for the California Science Center’s space shuttle–centric expansion
After breaking ground on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center four years ago, the California Science Center…
NASA to Share Latest Moon Base Mission Progress
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host a virtual conversation at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 30, to share…
NASA’s aging infrastructure can’t handle Artemis launches without $1 billion in upgrades, watchdog warns
NASA’s plan to return astronauts to the moon and bolster a rapidly growing commercial space industry is facing…
Detection of anisotropic cosmic structures on a gigaparsec scale
Weinberg, S. Cosmology (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008). Aghanim, N. et al. Planck 2018 results. V. CMB power spectra…