Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy (www.space.com)
"This is now becoming so real."
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival....
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.
Could white holes actually exist? (www.space.com)
White holes are mathematically possible, according to general relativity. But does that mean they're actually out there?
Terraforming: why the Moon is a better target than Mars (bigthink.com)
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.
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 old is our universe? New study says Big Bang might have happened 27 billion years ago (www.usatoday.com)
A study published this week in an astronomical journal suggests our universe could be 26.7 billion years old, or about twice as old as we thought.
A fusion rocket designed to travel 500,000 mph is under construction (bigthink.com)
Using nuclear fusion, Pulsar's rocket could dramatically increase travel speeds, aiming for tests by 2025 and fusion temperatures by 2027.
India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole (www.newscientist.com)
India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon by rover, completing a scientific mission that was first attempted in 2019 but ended in catastrophic failure due to a software glitch...
First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history (www.space.com)
How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species.
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
We have no explanations for this sort of slow repeat.
Webb telescope spots water in a nearby planetary system | CNN (www.cnn.com)
The James Webb Space Telescope detected water vapor swirling around a planetary system 370 light-years away.
Japanese astrophysicists suggest possibility of hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt (phys.org)
A pair of astrophysicists, one with Kindai University, the other the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, both in Japan, have found possible evidence of an Earth-like planet residing in the Kuiper Belt. In their paper published in The Astronomical Journal, Patryk Sofia Lykawka and Takashi Ito describe properties of the...
Space junk in Earth orbit and on the moon will increase with future missions—but nobody's in charge of cleaning it up (phys.org)
There's a lot of trash on the moon right now—including nearly 100 bags of human waste—and with countries around the globe traveling to the moon, there's going to be a lot more, both on the lunar surface and in Earth's orbit.
Russia's Luna-25 crashes into moon after orbit maneuver (spacenews.com)
Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has announced.
Chinese Astronauts May Build a Base Inside a Lunar Lava Tube (www.universetoday.com)
China is the latest nation to study lunar lava tubes as locations for bases. They provide natural protection that's impossible to ignore.
‘Fossilized’ Bubble 10,000 Times the Size of the Milky Way Could Be a Relic from the Big Bang (www.scientificamerican.com)
Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup
Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly (archive.ph)
When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why
Space mining company developing nuclear reactor and more for moon projects (www.space.com)
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy.
NASA slammed into an asteroid. Hubble just spotted a spectacular effect. (mashable.com)
NASA's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results.
We Just Got The First Evidence of Two Planets Sharing The Same Orbit (www.sciencealert.com)
The Solar System is a fairly tidy place.
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....
How to spot October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse across the Americas (www.newscientist.com)
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October...
Forget Alien Megastructures. New Study Says We Need to Look For 'Service Worlds'. (www.sciencealert.com)
In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.
DARPA wants new ideas for space weapons (www.space.com)
The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.
