Astronomy
Elon Musk Launches the Robotaxi—Can Tesla’s Cybercab Share the Road with America’s Myth of the Highway?
For more than a century, cars have meant freedom, escape and self-reinvention to Americans. Now Tesla’s forthcoming Cybercab makes us ask whether we can have the romance of the open road without actually driving it
How to capture drone imagery at night
Elon Musk promises more risky launches after sixth Starship failure
May 2024 solar storm cost $500 million in damages to farmers, new study reveals
Royal Observatory Greenwich: The birthplace of modern astronomy turns 350
SpaceX’s Transporter 14 launch will carry more than 150 capsules of DNA, human remains
The 2025 Bootid meteor shower peaks June 27: Here's what to expect
Another Tether Deorbiting Test Mission Takes Shape
More and more satellites are being added to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) every month. As that number continues to increase, so do the risks of that critical area surrounding the Earth becoming impassable, trapping us on the planet for the foreseeable future. Ideas from different labs have presented potential solutions to this problem, but one of the most promising, electrodynamic tethers (EDTs), have only now begun to be tested in space. A new CubeSat called the Spacecraft for Advanced Research and Cooperative Studies (SPARCS) mission from researchers at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran hopes to contribute to that effort by testing an EDT and intersatellite communication system as well as collecting real-time data on the radiation environment of its orbital path.
Hommkiety Galaxy Projector review
'Cocoon' at 40: Ron Howard's sci-fi smash is proof they don't make them like they used to
World's 1st multimedia performance in microgravity will bring together Cirque du Soleil, National Geographic and NASA
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 166 — Live From the Swamps, ISDC 2025
How Ten Times More Rocket Launches a Year Could Impact the Ozone Layer
A recent study looked at the challenges New Space may face, in terms of impact on the ozone layer. The study was published recently in the journal of Nature (link) by researchers out of University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, Harvard University, and the Institute for Atmospheric Climate Science and the Physics-Meteorology Observatory in Switzerland.
Nobel laureate concerned about AI-generated image of black hole at the center of our galaxy
A spinning universe could crack the mysteries of dark energy and our place in the multiverse
See the moon, Venus and the Pleiades make a celestial triangle in the predawn sky on June 22
Sun Close up Views/ 21st JUNE / Summer Solstice Backyard Astronomy with Lunt Telescope
Exoplanetary Systems are Diverse. Our Search for Life Should Be the Same
With over 5,000 exoplanets now identified, astronomers have found that our Solar System isn't the only model of planetary formation. There are super-Earths, sub-Neptunes, hot-Jupiters, and Earth-sized worlds orbiting around red dwarf stars. In a new paper, researchers propose how the search for life could adapt to these bizarre environments, expanding the definition of a habitable world. Life could exist without a surface, or using different kinds of solvents than water.