Gardening the Moon’s Cosmic Archives
When a meteoroid hits the Moon’s surface, it does more than just dig up a little dirt. It…
Moon Mondays: Now do something about it
Sometimes awareness comes in the form of something bugging the crap out of you until you’re finally motivated…
James Webb telescope catches five galaxies colliding, just 800 million years after the Big Bang
The group of five galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet are also called the Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG…
US start-up seeks miners in race for $20 quadrillion moon resource
It sounds so far-fetched as to be something out of science fiction: robots mining on the moon. But…
Space shuttle Endeavour weighed roughly 170,000 pounds, yet its final 12-mile journey through Los Angeles took 68 hours at no more than 2 mph—crews repeatedly stopped to trim trees and squeeze its 78-foot wingspan past obstacles with inches to spare.
Space shuttle Endeavour had crossed the United States on top of a modified Boeing 747. The last 12…
On this day in space! Aug. 30, 1992: Astronomers discover 1st Kuiper Belt object out beyond Pluto
On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time.…
SpaceX targets thousands of annual launches at planned $100 billion Louisiana site
SpaceX targets thousands of annual launches at planned $100 billion Louisiana site – Futura-Sciences August 30, 2026 3…
Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars
Researchers have uncovered a major temperature imbalance deep inside Mars, with the planet’s southern interior appearing significantly hotter…
Something doesn’t add up in the Chandelier Cluster, Hubble telescope finds — Space photo of the week
NGC 6723 is a globular cluster, an ancient inhabitant of the Milky Way galaxy. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble &…
Powerhouse Parramatta home to new observatory with telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies
More than two centuries after a famed observatory was built in Parramatta, a new one has been constructed…
The universe’s total mass-energy budget, according to standard cosmology: 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy — meaning everything made from the atoms on the periodic table accounts for less than one-twentieth of the cosmos.
Everything directly available to our senses belongs to the smallest slice of the standard cosmological budget. Stars, planets,…
How many neighbours did planet Earth lose? We may have lost planet 9 and trillions of comets from our Solar System
The Solar System didn’t always exist as we know it today. It’s about 4.5 billion years old and…