On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4,…
Category: Space
‘Star Trek: Section 31”s costume design was literally ‘Star Trek by Balenciaga’ (interview)
Hairstyles and makeup choices for a hardcore Empress of the Terran Empire ducking her duties in Starfleet’s under-the-radar black ops espionage division Section 31 to run a space disco and…
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside. Credit: NASA via…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter’s moon Io
Even for Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one…
Surprising signatures in WASP-121b’s dynamic atmosphere challenge understanding of how ‘roasting marshmallows’ form
Artist impression of a hot Jupiter Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas…
Testing tech in lava tubes for future space exploration
DLR’s SCOUT Rover is designed to explore the complex terrain of lava tubes. Credit: Roy Lichtenheldt, DLR What does an ancient lava tube in the Canary Islands have in common…
NASA astronaut Suni Williams sets new record on 5.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS (video)
Two NASA astronauts working outside of the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 30) were able to finally remove a faulty radio communications unit, succeeding where two previous spacewalks had…
NASA X-ray telescope discovers black holes ‘blow’ on their food to cool it down
Anyone who has experienced the blistering pain associated with biting into a fresh apple pastry or taking a swig of hot coffee can attest to the importance of blowing on…
How well could Earth life survive on exoplanets?
This table from the research shows the planetary and stellar characteristics used in the GCM simulations. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.05297 Next, they considered whether Earth microbes could survive in…
SpaceX mission to return US astronauts to happen ‘soon’: Trump
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will “soon” begin a…
