Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve

+Proba-3 will provide new views of the Sun and space weather. Credit: European Space Agency ESA’s Proba-3 will be the first mission to create an artificial total solar eclipse by…

New map of the universe uses gravitational waves to reveal hidden black holes and cosmic structure

Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology and South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) An international study led by astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology has created the most…

Trump may cancel NASA’s powerful SLS Moon rocket—what that would mean for Elon Musk and the future of space travel

Credit: NASA/MSFC Since Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, rumors and speculation have circulated that Nasa’s giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), could be under threat. The rocket is…

New approach uses observed local supervoid to give expansion of the universe an extra push and solve the Hubble tension

If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the surrounding denser…

Cosmological model proposes dark matter production during pre-Big Bang inflation

As physicists continue their struggle to find and explain the origin of dark matter, the approximately 80% of the matter in the universe that we can’t see and so far…

New Artemis mobile launcher takes shape amid uncertain future

Credit: Edvin Richardson from Pexels Months after an alarmist review from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, hundreds of construction workers seem out to prove their critics wrong as progress…

Astronomers investigate the evolution of a supersoft X-ray source

Scientists reveal possible role of iron sulfides in creating life in terrestrial hot springs

Scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals characteristics of the iron sulfide (mackinawite) catalyst. Credit: NIGPAS An international team of scientists has published a study highlighting the potential role of iron sulfides…

Webb observations explore the Westerlund 1 star cluster

OKEANOS—A mission that would have returned samples from the Trojan asteroids