SpaceX Starfall Demo Flies Tuesday: Disk Capsule Bets on Orbital Manufacturing Scale
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on Tuesday, June 23, in a low-profile demo that…
The tallest volcano in the solar system is so wide that from most places on its slopes, you would never see a dramatic summit rising ahead of you — Olympus Mons is broader than some countries, and its gentle flanks curve away with Mars long before the mountain looks like a mountain at all.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest volcano in the solar system, rising about 22 kilometres above the…
Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known satellite in the solar system to feature an atmosphere, which…
Sunday is the longest day of the year for half the planet. A guide to the summer solstice
This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern…
Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his $2.4 trillion dollar empire
Everyone knows Elon Musk is the genius behind the biggest stock market debut of all time. But even…
Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark matter clusters, new ‘echo map’ technique suggests
Astronomers have used a technique called echo mapping to detect hints that supermassive black holes, such as the…
Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
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Summer solstice 2026 is June 21, with El Niño, drought, and the moon as major players in Philly
Listen to article • 0:00 min Given the atmosphere’s impatience, it would be understandable if some folks believe that…
First day of summer is coming, the longest day of the year
The summer solstice arrives at 4:24 a.m. EDT on Sunday, the moment when the sun reaches its northernmost…
Enceladus, a tiny Saturnian moon only about 500 kilometres wide, is actively venting water vapour and ice grains into space from a salty ocean hidden beneath its crust — and modelling suggests that ocean may have remained warm and chemically active for geological timescales, perhaps long enough for life to have had a chance to emerge.
Enceladus is small, only about 500 kilometres across, a moon you could lose among Saturn’s dozens. It is…
Elliott Smith finds immortality as an asteroid
An asteroid now bears the name of beloved musician Elliott Smith, thanks to one ambitious filmmaker. Elliott Smith…
Where might we find life in our solar system?
Humans have pondered the question of life beyond our planet for millennia. Only in the past few…