NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become habitable. They also suggest a new role for Jupiter in the distribution of these elements throughout the young solar system. The study, published in Science Advances, examines this history by looking at the ratio of phosphorus to nitrogen in iron meteorites and in younger objects known as chondrites.

NASA took an unconventional approach to informing the astronauts of Artemis 3 about their crew assignments. Continue ReadingEver have a scary HR meeting on your calendar? That’s how the Artemis 3 crew found out their assignments→

Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket occurred at 8:27 a.m. ET, just over an hour before SpaceX went public on the NASDAQ stock market. Continue ReadingSpaceX’s stock wasn’t the company’s only launch today — It also put 29 Starlink satellites in orbit→

Japan successfully completed its first mission with its H3 rocket since a launch failure last year resulted in the loss of a payload. Continue ReadingJapan’s H3 rocket bounces back from failure with successful return to flight launch carrying 6 satellites→

The quasar existed 12.9 billion years ago and shows that supermassive black holes were able to age rapidly in the early universe. Continue ReadingCould the secret to black hole formation be locked away in this record-breaking ancient quasar?→

As the US military readies for two 2027 missions to test spacecraft maneuvering, a new challenge with orbital warehouses aims to beef up space infrastructure. Continue ReadingWhy is the US Space Force researching ‘orbital warehouses’?→

Every so often, the Sun hurls billions of tonnes of charged particles toward Earth in what are called coronal mass ejections and if a big one hits at the wrong moment, the consequences for satellites, power grids, and communications systems could be catastrophic. Our best defence is to predict them before they happen, and that means watching the Sun’s magnetic fields constantly and precisely. Now, a component smaller than a shirt button could transform how we do exactly that.

Last year, a study sent a quiet tremor through the field of cosmology. A team of researchers claimed that the universe’s expansion might be slowing down, not speeding up, suggesting that dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the cosmos apart, could be weakening. If true, it would have shaken the foundations of our understanding of the universe. Now, a new study including two Nobel laureates has looked carefully at the evidence and reached a clear verdict – crisis averted.

Every galaxy you’ve ever seen in a photograph is hiding something. Beyond the glowing disc of stars and gas that the camera captures lies a vast, ghostly outer region called a halo, too faint to see easily but packed with clues about how that galaxy came to be. ESA has just formally committed to a mission designed to reveal those hidden haloes in unprecedented detail, and in doing so, finally answer one of the most fundamental questions in astronomy: how did galaxies like our own Milky Way form?

Sensational performances and stunning cinematography just about cover for a predictable plot with nothing much to say. Continue Reading‘Disclosure Day’ review: A close encounter with Spielberg’s brilliance that doesn’t quite make contact→

‘I think it’s a really interesting environment to delve into. Ultimately, it’s a culture of survival.’ Continue Reading‘As terrible and harrowing as things were, people just had to get on with it’: ‘Star City’s’ Ruby Ashbourne Serkis and Adam Nagaitis on learning to love the Motherland in Apple TV’s soviet space race spin-off (interview)→

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 12, 2026, on the Starlink 10-54 mission. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now Update June 12, 9:53 a.m. EDT (1353 UTC): SpaceX confirmed satellite deployment. SpaceX marked its historic launch on the stock market Friday morning with a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 650th flight of SpaceX’s Continue ReadingSpaceX launches Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral as stock trades on the Nasdaq for first time→