Astronomy
Astronaut Fitness Gets a Boost with Adaptive Harness Design
What new exercise methods can be devised for astronauts in space under microgravity conditions? This is what a recent study conducted submitted to the 2025 Technology Collaboration Center’s (TCC) Wearables Workshop and University Challenge hopes to address as a team of Rice University engineering students developed a new type of space exercise harness that could make exercising under microgravity easier and more comfortable.
The JWST Might Have Found the First Direct-Collapse Black Hole
Stellar mass black holes are created by core-collapse supernovae. These occur when massive stars near the end of their lives collapse in on themselves and form a black hole. Supermassive black holes form through mergers with other massive black holes. But their could be a third kind, called direct-collapse black holes, and the JWST found evidence of one.
Do Supermassive Black Holes Play With Their Food?
Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black hole and is destroyed.
This Newborn Planet Is Carving Out A Home In Its Protoplanetary Disk
We can understand how Earth formed by watching other planets form in distant solar systems. Powerful telescopes like the VLT are making that possible. New observations show a baby planet sculpting patterns in the gas and dust around its star.
Is It Worth Going Back to the Moon?
It is true that crewed missions to the Moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous.
Peculiar galaxy seems to contain surprisingly pristine stars
Peculiar galaxy seems to contain surprisingly pristine stars
SpaceX Dragon carrying 4 astronauts zooms back to Earth | Space photo of the day for July 25, 2025
Why do the Klingons have beef with Dr. M'Benga in 'Strange New Worlds' episode 'Shuttle to Kenfori'
'NASA is under attack.' Space agency employees and lawmakers protest mass layoffs, science cuts amid budget turmoil
What Scientists on Greenland’s Ice Sheet Are Learning about Our Changing Climate
Think: subzero temperatures, bone-rattling storms and mysteries about the future of our planet under the ice.
Cosmic rays gave the Fantastic Four their incredible powers — but what do they really do?
This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 25 – August 3
The newly waxing Moon passes Mars low in the west, then Spica and Antares while growing more robust. At dawn, Jupiter heads toward Venus.
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