Super-close supernova captivates record number of citizen scientists (www.space.com)
World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies (www.space.com)
Studying the hydrogen fingerprint from just after the Big Bang could allow researchers to kill 'two birds with one stone!'
Red Dwarf: 10 ways the Brit sci-fi sitcom proved it was as smart as Star Trek (www.space.com)
Water on Mars carved deep gullies and left a 'great puzzle' for Red Planet history (www.space.com)
"They look very Earth-like, but they're on Mars, so how could they form there?"
Do fabled 'dark stars' actually exist? James Webb Space Telescope spots 3 candidates (www.space.com)
It's hard to say what these possible 'dark stars' really are.
The James Webb Space Telescope wraps 1st year peering across the universe. What has it discovered so far? (www.space.com)
It's been one year since we saw the first official images taken by the groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope....
Good news for the alien life hunt: Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets (www.space.com)
'This significantly increases the chances of finding environments where life could, in theory, develop.'
Huge granite 'body' on far side of the moon offers clues to ancient lunar volcanoes (www.space.com)
Cooled magma deposits have been discovered under a lunar volcano that likely erupted 3.5 billion years ago.
James Webb telescope detects the earliest strand in the 'cosmic web' ever seen (www.space.com)
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a clump of ancient galaxies that may be the oldest strand of the "cosmic web" ever detected.
The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds (www.space.com)
Zhurong spotted telltale patterns in Martian dunes.
Yes, solar storms are increasing, but don't lose sleep over an 'internet apocalypse.' (www.space.com)
Non-existent NASA warnings about a months-long global internet shutdown triggered by a major solar storm in 2025 began circulating online recently.
NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet looks ready to fly in new photos (www.space.com)
NASA's supersonic plane has moved closer to the runway in preparation for its debut flight.
The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard for the 1st time (www.space.com)
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so much radiation that it's hurting radio astronomy, scientists say (www.space.com)
Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.
India to launch Chandrayaan 3 moon lander and rover on July 14 (video, photos) (www.space.com)
India will take another crack at a moon landing on Chandrayaan 3. Indeed, that's the primary focus: The new mission carries a lander and rover but no orbiter.
Farewell, Ariane 5! Europe's workhorse rocket launches 2 satellites on final mission (www.space.com)
Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for 1st time ever (www.space.com)
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Cosmic 'sandwich' theory could explain how smaller planets are formed (www.space.com)
"Sandwiched planet formation" may arise as the result of gas and dust being squeezed between large planets.
Our infant solar system may have survived a nearby supernova explosion (www.space.com)
Radioactive isotopes in meteorites suggest that a supernova erupted in the vicinity of the solar system as it was forming.
Sun blasts out powerful X-class solar flare causing radio blackouts on Earth (video) (www.space.com)
The solar flare erupted from a sunspot seven times the width of the Earth.
See Europe's powerful new Ariane 6 rocket on launch pad (photo) (www.space.com)
What's next for Europe's Euclid 'dark universe' telescope after stunning SpaceX launch? (www.space.com)
What's next for Europe's Euclid 'dark universe' telescope after stunning SpaceX launch? (www.space.com)
SpaceX rocket launches the Euclid Space Telescope on a six year mission to map the 'dark universe' like never before [Video] (www.space.com)
The European satellite, called Euclid, soared to space today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida's Space Coast