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A strange bright burst in space baffled astronomers for more than a year. Now, they’ve solved the mystery
The radio burst was captured using the ASKAP radio telescope. Credit: Marcin Glowacki Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we…
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…
Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Magnetic Weber bar concept: Gravitational waves deform the magnet, creating oscillating magnetic fields detected by the pickup loop and SQUID. Credit: Sebastian Ellis New research published in Physical Review Letters…
Hey Siri, fix my spacecraft! A virtual assistant could help astronauts handle unexpected space mission issues
Credit: Rachel Barton/Texas A&M Engineering When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be impossible for days to weeks at a…
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…
Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed
This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly red clouds unveil a newly discovered radio mini-halo—the most distant ever detected—and…
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…
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some
Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true colour as might be seen by the human eye. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins…
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…
