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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
TERRIFYING double solar storm to strike the Earth today, says NASA; Know the danger ( tech.hindustantimes.com )
NASA has predicted that a double solar storm attack will strike the Earth around 5:30 PM today, July 7. Know just how intense it can be and what to expect.
ParallaxNick is my favorite YouTube astronomy channel, his latest video is a quick one on the detection of the gravitational wave background. ( youtu.be )
The first piece of art created in space, and the pencils Alexei Leonov used to draw it. ( media.kbin.social )
New type of gravitational waves detected! Are they from new physics? ( www.youtube.com )
A pulsar timing array found evidence of gravitational waves, but the results don't exactly match predictions. This opens the possibility of evidence for new physics...
JWST Has Now Captured All 4 Giant Planets ( media.kbin.social )
India, a growing space power, is forging closer ties with NASA ( arstechnica.com )
Details of a potential US-Indian partnership in human spaceflight remain murky.
We Need to Widen the ‘Habitable Zones’ Seen around Alien Stars ( www.scientificamerican.com )
When looking for life in space, we should broaden our horizons...
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.
The scale of The Milky Way - why is the galaxy bigger than you think? ( youtu.be )
This is a journey into the scale of the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way -really well done video
Have We Found Fragments of a Meteor from Another Star? ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Tiny spheres of once-molten metal magnetically dredged from the seafloor could be pieces from IM1, a potential interstellar meteor that struck Earth in 2014
Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed ( arstechnica.com )
Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form....
A ‘Captured’ Alien Planet May Be Hiding at the Edge of Our Solar System ( www.scientificamerican.com )
The cold and mysterious Oort cloud at the edge of our solar system may be hiding a rogue planet
Blue Origin is planning to open new launch sites outside the US ( www.engadget.com )
It's also seeking more partnerships and acquisitions..
NASA Rocket Flight Software for Artemis II Meets Testing Checkpoint ( www.nasa.gov )
The first Artemis astronauts have begun crew training for their Artemis II mission around the Moon, and teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are testing and configuring the flight software for the mega Moon rocket that will launch them on their journey.