Astronomy
Was Planet Nine exiled from the solar system as a baby?
Your imagination doesn’t get worse as you age – but it does change
Your imagination doesn’t get worse as you age – but it does change
How to watch SpaceX's Starship Flight 9 launch and Elon Musk's Mars update today
The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites
The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites
Best wide-angle camera lenses 2025: Discover the ideal wide-angle for your camera
NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
How fast you age is dictated by your sex, ethnicity and education
How fast you age is dictated by your sex, ethnicity and education
Prostheses fit to Fly!
The performance of a lower limb prosthesis has been evaluated in microgravity conditions for the first time during the latest ESA parabolic flight campaign on the ‘Zero G’ aircraft.
One Star Once Orbited Inside the Other in this Bizarre Binary System.
Astronomers have spotted a pulsar in a binary system, taking about 3.6 hours for the stars to orbit one another. Their orbit is so close that, from our vantage point, the pulsar’s radio signals vanish for roughly one-sixth of each cycle—blocked by the companion’s interference. Researchers think that the more massive star died first, exploding as a supernova and collapsing into a neutron star, passing within the atmosphere of the other. It took about 1,000 years to blow away the envelope of material.
Astronomers Identified the Lost Star of 1408…Or Have They?
Over the past 90 years, astronomers have successfully matched several Chinese historical records of "guest stars" with known supernovae. However, identifying historical novae (smaller stellar explosions) has proven to be far more challenging, with many proposed candidates later turning out to be comets or meteors instead. One particularly debated case involves a guest star recorded in 1408 CE by Chinese astronomers. A team of astronomers now think they may have finally been able to identify the event, a rare nova that could potentially solve this centuries old astronomical mystery.
Perseverance Photobombed by a Passing Dust Devil
On May 10th, while striking a selfie to mark its 1,500th day on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover got an unexpected guest star—a towering dust devil swirling in the distance photobombed the shot. The rover was on Witch Hazel Hill, an area on the rim of Jezero Crater that it has been exploring for the last 5 months. The dust devil on the other hand was sneaking into the background from a distance of 5 km away. The selfie image was made up of 59 separate photos taken by the rover using its WATSON camera.
Scientists worry Trump's budget cuts will halt satellite air pollution studies: 'It's incredibly short-sighted'
See Jupiter pair up with a sliver of the moon tonight
How Likely Are Habitable Exo-Moons?
Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we've discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars. Most are giant planets; either gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, or ice giants like Uranus and Neptune. Could some of those have habitable exomoons?