Recently, a team from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) tested a model of the X-59 experimental aircraft. What is it? The X-59 aircraft measures around 99.7 feet…
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The Habitable Worlds Observatory could find more very massive stars
The Tarantula Nebula, which contains a cluster of VMSs. Credit – NASA, ESA, P Crowther. Credit: University of Sheffield Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the…
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ pushes for crewed moon missions, but proposed budget cuts leave NASA science behind
The recent United States government’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that was recently signed into law has good news for the future of crewed spaceflight — but at the same…
Research shows path toward protocells on Saturn’s moon Titan
Hydrocarbon lake and methane rain clouds on Titan. Credit: Jenny McElligott / eMITS NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s…
Astronomers discover monster exoplanet hiding in ‘stellar fog’ around young star
Astronomers have spotted a monster-sized planet that could be up to ten times the size of Jupiter emerging from the stellar fog surrounding a young star. Prior observations of the…
Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary head back to Earth after private space station mission
This image provided by NASA and Axiom Space shows a SpaceX capsule undocking from the International Space Station, Monday July 14, 2025, targeting a splashdown in the Pacific, carrying visiting…
‘Pebble’ beaches around young stars join together to form planets
A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that have resolved the existence of a huge abundance of…
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
by DAVE COLLINS and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 – 4…
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the sun, a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and the Earth. Sizes are to scale, but distances are not. Credit:…
Inside New Brunswick’s ambituous plan for the world’s densest dark-sky corridor
As a crescent moon sank into the forest, I looked high above the cabin behind me to see just how dark it was getting. Staring back at me was the…
