NASA’s Exoplanet Hunter Reveals its Most Complete Look at the Night Sky
‘This view of the whole sky was constructed from 96 TESS sectors. By the end of September 2025,…
A red sky frightened medieval Japan, and buried trees now reveal the solar storm behind it
Tree rings have become one of science’s best tools for tracking ancient solar storms. When the Sun hurls…
The UK SpaceX investors set for billion-dollar payday
UK investment firms are gearing up to cash in on Space X’s blockbuster float after backing the company…
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
Corporate use of Anthropic’s Claude and the Google Gemini AI models has also soared in the past year,…
SpaceX Filing Reveals How Elon Musk’s Companies Pay Each Other
Step right up to Elon Musk’s financial merry-go-round. Tucked more than 200 pages into SpaceX’s S-1 paperwork, which…
Our galaxy may be full of planets identical to Earth at formation that turned into uninhabitable hellscapes — and the one sitting next door to us has been so thoroughly ignored that a leading researcher called it criminally underexplored while we spent decades looking at Mars
Preliminary results from a study presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna earlier this month…
So Those Water Vapors on Europa Might Not Actually Be a Thing
In 2014, a monumental Science paper showed that Hubble data pointed to intermittent plumes of water vapor on…
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-observing satellite early on May 22
Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22),…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024 NASA had to repair it by remotely moving pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip — a software patch sent into interstellar space and confirmed nearly two days later.
Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard…
NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather
On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase…
This exoplanet weather forecast by the James Webb Space Telescope calls for sandy skies and a clear (alien) sunset
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with…
HS2 is the wildest white elephant in British history. Please put it out of its misery | Simon Jenkins
So it is official, as if that makes a difference. After a 15-month review by the new chief…