Every star you’ve ever looked at is hiding a magnetic secret and it may have been hiding it since birth. A new theoretical study has connected, for the first time, the magnetic fields detected deep inside dying red giants with the magnetism found at the surfaces of their long dead remnants. These fields may be ancient fossils, born early in a star’s life and surviving billions of years of violent transformation completely intact.

Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation. Continue ReadingA worst-case solar storm could trigger panic buying and public unrest, report warns→

Thirty four years ago, a group of Cornell scientists looked at a remote Chilean mountaintop and imagined what might be built there one day. That day has arrived. The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope has just opened its eyes on the universe from one of the most extreme observatory sites ever chosen, and the science it promises to deliver from the first moments after the Big Bang to the hidden nurseries of newborn stars.

The Sun is the most studied star in the universe, yet some of its most violent behaviour remains stubbornly out of reach. Solar flares, explosive eruptions that can disrupt satellites, knock out power grids and bathe astronauts in radiation release enormous bursts of X-rays that carry vital clues about what drives them. Now, a team of Japanese engineers has built the sharpest X-ray telescope ever to fly on a solar mission, and the technology it has pioneered could soon fit inside a satellite the size of a shoebox.

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets 19 hours apart, both carrying batches of Starlink satellites. The liftoffs took place from Florida and California on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 (by local time zone). Continue ReadingSpaceX launches two Starlink satellite groups 19 hours apart→

In 1937, Ettore Majorana asked a question nobody else was even thinking about: does a particle have to have a distinct antiparticle? For neutrinos — which carry no charge — the answer might be no. They might be their own antiparticles. Deep underground right now, experiments are watching atoms decay, waiting for the signal that would prove it. So far: nothing. But the case is not closed.

A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. File Photo: SpaceX SpaceX is counting down to the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying another 25 satellites for its Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 9:29:49 p.m. PDT (12:29:49 a.m. EDT / 04:29:49 UTC). The Falcon 9 will Continue ReadingLive Coverage: West Coast SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to launch 25 Starlink satellites→

Rovers equipped with Radioisotope Power Systems (RPSs), aka. nuclear reactors, could effectively explore the craters in the Moon’s southern polar region.

Artemis 2 kicks off a lunar “relay race” that will lead the NASA and its international partners to a moon base and, eventually, Mars, NASA chief Jared Isaacman says. Continue ReadingNASA’s Artemis 2 moonshot was just the ‘opening act’ for America’s return to the moon, space agency chief says→

They are the most abundant particles in the universe, yet we barely know they exist. Neutrinos stream through everything, through walls, through planets and even through you…. in their billions every second, leaving no trace. We’ve known for decades that they have mass, but pinning down exactly how much has defeated physicists for years. Now, the most sensitive experiment ever built has pushed our knowledge to a new frontier, and what it found raises a profound question about why these ghostly particles are so extraordinarily light.

When a massive star explodes on the far side of the universe, the light from that explosion normally fades long before it reaches us. But occasionally, the universe conspires to help. A newly discovered supernova has been caught using the gravity of an entire galaxy as a natural magnifying glass, boosting its light by at least a hundred times and revealing a stellar death that would otherwise have been completely invisible. It is the most magnified supernova ever found, and it opens a remarkable new window onto the distant universe.

The lunar south pole is where humanity plans to build its first permanent outpost but we still don’t fully understand what lies beneath the surface. A new study has used radar to peer below the ground in one of the Moon’s most complex and battered regions and what it’s finding raises important questions about the geological minefield that future astronauts will be navigating. Ancient impacts, frozen melt sheets, and billions of years of overlapping debris may complicate our plans more than we thought.

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