9+ min ago   (1007+ words) These extraordinary images from orbit reveal our planet, and the cosmos beyond, from a perspective few humans ever experience For more than two decades, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have enjoyed one of the most extraordinary views imaginable…...

54+ min ago   (429+ words) Chariklo’s inner ring is getting denser. Its outer ring is fading. Both changes are happening at the same time — and, for the moment, nobody knows why. The finding matters beyond Chariklo itself. Ring systems around planets had already shown that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (224+ words) Back in 1974, a complex radio transmission was sent from the now-destroyed Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico toward M13 in the hope of reaching an alien civilization. Astronomers figured that since there are so many stars and planets in that area, there’s…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago   (679+ words) A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1006+ words) The moon would act as a “collection plate,” as it were. As the SETI Institute noted in a statement on September 8, 2026, the study presents the first quantitative framework for testing whether microscopic technosignatures could accumulate in lunar soil over billions…...

34+ min ago   (282+ words) Dark photons are one proposed explanation for dark matter. A new calculation suggests that the early universe’s plasma may have stopped them from depositing heat as efficiently as earlier models predicted. The post Early-Universe Plasma May Have Kept Dark Photons…...

43+ min ago   (145+ words) starlust.org Rubin Observatory reveals a breathtaking deep view packed with hundreds of thousands of galaxies Watch: SpaceX fires all six Starship engines in a spectacular multi-angle static fire NASA's James Webb found newly formed stars glowing just outside the…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (410+ words) Sep 13, 2026, 07:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT Some shadowed areas of the lunar South Pole could keep microbes from Earth alive, despite an environment considered extremely hostile. This possibility emerges from a study conducted by researchers from NASA and the University…...

34+ min ago   (323+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Jishen Qiu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Living building material can be 3D printed under simulated Martian conditions at –30°C and 0.01 atm. (Credit: Ning Liu) Researchers started by genetically modifying a…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (216+ words) NASA has announced that a powerful solar flare on the Sun poses no threat to the planned Artemis 2 mission to the Moon. A powerful X1.4-class solar flare was recorded on March 29 in one of the active regions of the Sun....