Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of…
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Growing evidence for evolving dark energy could inspire a new model of the universe
The Big Bang started around 13.8 billion years ago. Credit: NASA The birth, growth and future of our universe are eternally fascinating. In the last decades, telescopes have been able…
World Asteroid Day 2025 — Watch live views of near-Earth asteroids for free online on June 30
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here’s how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth asteroids from the comfort of your home. June 30 is…
Japan launches a climate change monitoring satellite on mainstay H2A rocket’s last flight
An H-2A rocket carrying Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle, or GOSAT-GW satellite, lifts off from a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan,…
Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet
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,…
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…
