Habitable Zone Planets Around Red Dwarfs Aren’t Likely To Host Exomoons
There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates,…
New Comet C/2025 V1 Borisov Is Speeding Past Earth – But Where’s Its Tail?
A newly discovered comet, C/2025 V1 Borisov, is speeding through speeding through the solar system between the Earth…
How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of
During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and colour…
This company wants to be the 1st to launch human remains to Mars. Will it ever get there?
While Mars looms as the next destination for humanity’s expansion into our solar system, there are significant hurdles,…
No, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hasn’t ‘changed color’, scientist says
Comet 3I/ATLAS continues to captivate the public. The comet is only the third known interstellar visitor to our…
Study: The Universe is slowing, not accelerating, upending physics
Astronomers piece together the story of our expanding universe, and whether or not that expansion is accelerating, by…
Farewell to security – Louvre and NASA share the same mistake that puts millions of data at risk
It seems unbelievable, but neither the Louvre, with its millennia-old treasures, nor NASA, with all its space technology,…
FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks
Beginning next week, daytime rocket launches are all officially scrubbed thanks to the government shutdown. As the record-long…
Heat leaking from Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus bolsters its case as an abode for life
Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that…
SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – Spaceflight Now
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands at pad 39A for its planned launch with 21 Starlink satellites. Image:…
‘Unlike any we’ve ever seen’: Record-breaking black hole eruption is brighter than 10 trillion suns
A supermassive black hole appears to have generated a record flare after gobbling a star at least 30…
NASA’s new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere
Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites…