This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars,…
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The ups and downs of life in space | On the ISS this week June 23 – 27, 2025
They have arrived! After an extended delay, the Axiom Mission-4 (Ax-4) crew flying aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Grace” pulled up to the International Space Station and docked, beginning a two-week…
Mexico threatens lawsuit against SpaceX over Starship explosion ‘contamination’
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened to file a lawsuit against SpaceX over what the leader described as “contamination” following an explosion at SpaceX’s Starbase facility earlier this month. On…
Cosmic images from the world’s largest digital camera are so big they require a ‘data butler’
The amount of data that will be collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which released its fabulous first-light images this week, will far outweigh what any telescope before it…
Dwarf galaxy glows red in the Hunting Dogs constellation photo of the day for June 25, 2025
Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It’s part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to…
Radio signals from the dawn of time could help ‘weigh’ the universe’s 1st stars
Astronomers could use specific radio signals from the universe’s earliest epoch to “weigh” the first stars in the cosmos. The investigation could reveal more about the so-called Cosmic Dawn, the…
Moon dust is less toxic than urban air pollution, scientists discover
Moon dust may not be as harmful to humans as had been thought, with a new experiment showing that the typical air pollution on a busy street is more toxic…
May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals
Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last year, and the disruption lasted for up to…
Nobel laureate concerned about AI-generated image of black hole at the center of our galaxy
The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning at ear “top speed,” according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) model. The model, trained partially on complex…
Space law doesn’t protect historical sites, mining operations and bases on the Moon – a space lawyer describes a framework that could
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. April 2025 was a busy month for space. Pop icon…
