Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?

— Bob Monkhouse

Astronomy

We've discovered a door to a hidden part of reality – what's inside?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:00pm
Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like the LHC. Now we have found a new way of accessing a tiny slice of reality where they might be hiding
Categories: Astronomy

'Most impressive!' Darth Vader's screen-used 'Star Wars' lightsaber could fetch $3 million in September auction

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:00pm
Propstore will also trot out this rare relic for a 3-city press tour this August
Categories: Astronomy

Humidity from Corn Sweat Intensifies Extreme Heat Wave in U.S. Midwest

Scientific American.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 11:55am

Humid heat is blanketing the eastern U.S. this week, exacerbated by “corn sweat” in the Midwest

Categories: Astronomy

Could AI Have Prevented SkyWest Airliner’s Near Collision with a B-52 Bomber?

Scientific American.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 11:53am

A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air-traffic controllers may not have foreseen

Categories: Astronomy

Astronomers crack 1,000-year-old Betelgeuse mystery with 1st-ever sighting of secret companion (photo, video)

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 11:00am
Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that has persisted for millennia.
Categories: Astronomy

ESA selects 5 rocket companies for European Launcher Challenge

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:42am
Germany's Isar and RFA, France's Maiaspace, Spain's PLD Space, and UK-based Orbex have been pre-selected for ESA's €169 million launcher initiative.
Categories: Astronomy

How Humility Can Restore Trust in Expertise

Scientific American.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 10:00am

Acknowledging the limits of one’s own knowledge could be as important a signal of expertise as credentials and confidence

Categories: Astronomy

Amateur astrophotographer captures trio of breathtaking nebulas from the Central Australian Desert (photos)

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 9:00am
"There's some great targets in the southern hemisphere, including the Carina Nebula."
Categories: Astronomy

Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it is contaminated?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:56am
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans, which could be a problem for both future AI and historians
Categories: Astronomy

Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it is contaminated?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:56am
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans, which could be a problem for both future AI and historians
Categories: Astronomy

Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS | Space photo of the day for July 21, 2025

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:30am
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to study human health in space.
Categories: Astronomy

Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark matter

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:00am
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – they may be capturing dark matter for extra fuel
Categories: Astronomy

Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark matter

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:00am
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – they may be capturing dark matter for extra fuel
Categories: Astronomy

Landmark Langlands Proof Advances Grand Unified Theory of Math

Scientific American.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:00am

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore

Categories: Astronomy

What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:00am
Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.
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Who Was First in Flight? This 1925 Scientific American Piece Dives into a Museum Disagreement

Scientific American.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 6:00am

This episode of Science Quickly goes on an archival adventure in Scientific American’s July 1925 issue.

Categories: Astronomy

Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history

Space.com - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 6:00am
Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.
Categories: Astronomy

ExoMars parachutes ready for martian deployment

ESO Top News - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 3:30am

 

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth.

Categories: Astronomy

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APOD - Sun, 07/20/2025 - 12:00pm

What is going on with this galaxy?


Categories: Astronomy, NASA

South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045

Space.com - Sun, 07/20/2025 - 12:00pm
South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned construction of a moon base two decades from now.
Categories: Astronomy