It Would Take About 100 Billion Years for Another Star to Pass Close Enough to Make the Solar System Unstable
A new study by a team of Canadian researchers shows that our Solar System will not experience a close and…
Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life
The search for life—even ancient life—on Mars is trickier than we thought. In a recent study published in the journal…
LHC Scientists Find Three Exotic Particles — and Start Hunting for More
Physicists say they've found evidence in data from Europe's Large Hadron Collider for three never-before-seen combinations of quarks, just as…
SpaceX Shares an Image of the Super Heavy Booster Bristling With 33 Newly Installed Raptor Engines
SpaceX has released new images that show the Starship and Superheavy prototypes with all their engines!
We've Seen a Helicopter on Mars. Next, Sailplanes?
The success of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter has encouraged engineers to consider and reconsider all options for remote aerial observations…
Astronomer Working With Webb Said the new Images “Almost Brought him to Tears.” We’ll see Them on July 12th
The first images taken by James Webb will be released in a little more than a week! According to NASA,…
The United States announces a stop to testing Anti-Satellite Weapons
The United States Government has declared that it will no longer be performing tests of Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons. In a…
Mystery Rocket Crash Site, ISS Independence, Space Nuclear Power
NASA teases JWST images, Rocket Lab launches CAPSTONE, mystery rocket's crash site found on the Moon, how magnetars are created,…
The Solar System is Stable for at Least the Next 100,000 Years
It’s nice to have a feel-good story every once in a while, so here’s one to hold off the existential…
Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one… Doesn’t
A Chandra X-ray Observatory view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of quasar H1821+643. Courtesy NASA/CXC/Univ. of Cambridge/J.…