Elon Musk’s fortune slumps to pre-SpaceX IPO levels after rout
SpaceX pulled off a successful launch last Friday evening at its Starbase facility in South Texas, sending its Starship rocket…
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly ten kilometres across struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula…
APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus
Explanation: The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic…
A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report
The amount of space junk falling back to Earth is increasing as more rockets and satellites are launched…
China launches secretive TJS-27 pair, orbits next-gen Tianlian relay sat
HELSINKI — China sent a new pair of secretive satellites into a programmatically new orbit Wednesday, while also…
This Week in Science: Dyson Spheres, Hidden Amazon Structures, And More : ScienceAlert
This Week in Science: Creatine’s effect on cancer, a dinosaur-era ‘turducken’, and much more! First up: JWST has…
Saturn’s moon Titan has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s and seas you could sail on, and it is the one place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit, though its surface sits at about minus 179 degrees Celsius
Of all the places people talk about settling beyond Earth, Titan is the one that makes me stop…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers of liquid methane longer than the Nile’s tributaries, but a 2025 Brown University study found that only 1.3% of those rivers form deltas — on Earth, nearly every river does, and nobody yet knows why Titan’s don’t
There is a 400-kilometre river system near the north pole of Titan that drains into a sea larger…
Rare solar eclipse to be twinned with meteor shower in night sky spectacular this month
Much of the world is set to look towards the night sky in August, to take in a…
SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (photos)
SpaceX has sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying…
UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
Total eclipse of the heart: Family channels passion for chasing eclipses around the world into book
SINGAPORE – When Koh Joo Beng, 66, was doing national service as a young man, he was sometimes…