Oh, would it not be absurd if there was no objective state?
What if the unobserved always waits, insubstantial,
till our eyes give it shape?

— Peter Hammill

Astronomy

US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 12:09pm
When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies, he bypassed standard protocols and set the stage for future vaccine rollbacks
Categories: Astronomy

US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 12:09pm
When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies, he bypassed standard protocols and set the stage for future vaccine rollbacks
Categories: Astronomy

Could we build space-time computers that run on gravity?

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 12:00pm
New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers
Categories: Astronomy

Could we build space-time computers that run on gravity?

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 12:00pm
New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers
Categories: Astronomy

Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week

Space.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 12:00pm
The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.
Categories: Astronomy

Women find other women’s faces even more attractive than men do

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 11:51am
Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men
Categories: Astronomy

Women find other women’s faces even more attractive than men do

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 11:51am
Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men
Categories: Astronomy

Forest Preservation, Tree Planting Could Actually Worsen Climate Change

Scientific American.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 11:45am

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says

Categories: Astronomy

European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater 'soaked in layers of Martian history' (photo)

Space.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 11:00am
The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.
Categories: Astronomy

Vast cosmic voids are far from empty  — they're hiding something dark

Space.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 10:00am
The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?
Categories: Astronomy

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025

ESO Top News - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 9:10am

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025

Discover our week through the lens

Categories: Astronomy

Atlas V rocket to launch Amazon’s 2nd batch of Kuiper internet satellites on June 13

Space.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 9:00am
The second big batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites will launch next Friday (June 13) from Florida, if all goes to plan.
Categories: Astronomy

Trump’s Cuts Threaten NASA Plans for Astronauts on Mars

Scientific American.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 8:00am

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

Categories: Astronomy

Japan's Resilience moon lander has crashed into the lunar surface

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 7:03am
An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor
Categories: Astronomy

Japan's Resilience moon lander has crashed into the lunar surface

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 7:03am
An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor
Categories: Astronomy

One of the best star projectors on the market — the Pococo Galaxy Star Projector — is at its lowest ever price ahead of Father's Day

Space.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 7:00am
The Pococo Galaxy Star Projector is currently 28% off and will arrive in time for Father's Day — and you can get its lowest-ever price before Prime Day too.
Categories: Astronomy

'Predator: Killer of Killers' is a battle across history that doesn't dwell on the franchise's past

Space.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 7:00am
The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in three distant settings.
Categories: Astronomy

What Is the Analemma?

Scientific American.com - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 6:45am

A curious celestial phenomenon known as the analemma is a reflection of Earth’s orbit and tilted axis

Categories: Astronomy

We may have discovered the first-ever stars powered by dark matter

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 6:23am
Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects
Categories: Astronomy

We may have discovered the first-ever stars powered by dark matter

New Scientist Space - Space Headlines - Fri, 06/06/2025 - 6:23am
Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects
Categories: Astronomy