SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test…
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Is the universe infinite, or does it have a limit?
After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity’s vision of the universe to its utmost limits, we can finally, confidently say…
ESA’s Mars Express and ExoMars orbiters catch a glimpse of 3I/ATLAS
ExoMars TGO images comet 3I/ATLAS. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward appearances, the object…
Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. For more than a century, physics has been built on…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 181 — World Space Week
World Space Week – A UN-Established Global Celebration of Space – YouTube Watch On On Episode 181 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by…
Unified model explains extreme jet streams on all giant planets
The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn exhibit eastward-flowing equatorial jet streams, while the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have westward-flowing ones. This work demonstrates that, under similar conditions, a jet…
‘Is there something emerging from my head?’ ‘Solar Opposites’ season 6 clip reveals the horror of Beta Nuts (exclusive)
Our favorite Schlorpian family is back for the sixth and final season of “Solar Opposites”, as Korvo, Terry, Jessie, Yumyulack, and the Pupa continue to try to adapt to Earth’s…
Event Horizon Telescope images reveal new dark matter detection method
Simulated images of the supermassive black hole M87*. Left panel shows radiation from astrophysical plasma and right panel illustrates potential emission from dark matter annihilation. Credit: Yifan Chen. According to…
Young sunlike star reveals rapid two-year magnetic cycle
Credit: AIP/J. Alvarado-Gómez – STScI/NASA Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have uncovered the intricate magnetic heartbeat of a distant star remarkably similar to our own sun—but…
SpaceX targets nighttime launch of competitor Amazon’s satellites
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX is set to finish up its third of three contracted launches of competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites on Thursday night. A Falcon 9 on the…
