Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket engine explodes during testing (www.cnbc.com)
It's a destructive setback with potential ramifications for the company's customer United Launch Alliance as well as Blue Origin's own rocket New Glenn....
How microbial protein is shaping food production on Earth and in space (www.euronews.com)
Finnish foodtech firm Solar Foods makes microbial protein using just hydrogen, CO2 and electricity. Could it help astronauts get to Mars?
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.'
'Like a mirror': Astronomers identify most reflective exoplanet (phys.org)
A scorching hot world where metal clouds rain drops of titanium is the most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday.
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.
James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain (www.businessinsider.com)
NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years after the Big Bang. That's really early.
The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds (www.space.com)
Zhurong spotted telltale patterns in Martian dunes.
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.
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.