Astronomy

SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission delayed until mid-August

We'll all have to wait a bit longer to see the first-ever private spacewalk.SpaceX is now targeting mid- to late August for the...

Gravitational waves could reveal hidden histories of black holes – Physics World

Gravitational waves could reveal hidden histories of black holes – Physics World ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life

NASA's Perseverance rover may have found signs of ancient life in a rock on Mars; the mission team's scientists are ecstatic, but remain...

Clare Burrage – ‘We look for connections between different areas of physics, but it is impossible for anyone to be an expert across it...

Ask me anything: Clare Burrage – ‘We look for connections between different areas of physics, but it is impossible for anyone to be...

Vera Rubin found a lifetime of wonder in the dark skies

Eds. Note: On July 23, Vera Rubin would have turned 96.By Elizabeth Gamillo for Astronomy magazineImage Credit: Mark Godfrey (PNAS).A century ago galaxies...

Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch youngest woman above the Kármán line

Blue Origin has announced the crew for its next New Shepard space tourism flight.The diverse crew includes a NASA-funded researcher, a professor, a...

European Space Agency launches JUICE mission to Jupiter and its moons – Physics World

European Space Agency launches JUICE mission to Jupiter and its moons – Physics World ...

The key to detecting deepfakes may lie within deep space

The eyes, the old saying goes, are the window to the soul — but when it comes to deepfake images, they might be...

Sun-like stars seen orbiting hidden neutron stars – Physics World

Sun-like stars seen orbiting hidden neutron stars – Physics World ...

Rapidly spinning dead stars could unveil dark matter secrets

Scientists plan to use dead star "clocks" to illuminate the universe's most mysterious stuff: dark energy.These timekeepers are actually pulsars, or rapidly spinning...

Primordial black holes contain very little dark matter, say astronomers – Physics World

Primordial black holes contain very little dark matter, say astronomers – Physics World ...

HBO’s ‘Wild Wild Space’ provides an inside look at the private space race (review)

If you’re not in, you're out, as they say in the shark tank of the entrepreneurial world.The old saying applies to the burgeoning...

Astronomers braced for a revolution in fast radio burst localizations – Physics World

Astronomers braced for a revolution in fast radio burst localizations – Physics World ...

Star-Mapping Mission Gaia Impacted by Micrometeoroid, Solar Storm – Sky & Telescope

The European Space Agency’s decade-old Gaia mission is in the process of mapping out the positions and velocities of more than 1 billion...

Falcon 9’s returns to flight reminds spaceflight industry of past anomalies

SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission delayed until mid-August

New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria

SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission delayed until mid-August

Gravitational waves could reveal hidden histories of black holes – Physics World

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover finds possible signs of ancient Red Planet life

Clare Burrage – ‘We look for connections between different areas of physics, but it is impossible for anyone to be an expert across it...

Vera Rubin found a lifetime of wonder in the dark skies

Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch youngest woman above the Kármán line

European Space Agency launches JUICE mission to Jupiter and its moons – Physics World

The key to detecting deepfakes may lie within deep space

Sun-like stars seen orbiting hidden neutron stars – Physics World

Rapidly spinning dead stars could unveil dark matter secrets

Primordial black holes contain very little dark matter, say astronomers – Physics World

HBO’s ‘Wild Wild Space’ provides an inside look at the private space race (review)

Astronomers braced for a revolution in fast radio burst localizations – Physics World

Star-Mapping Mission Gaia Impacted by Micrometeoroid, Solar Storm – Sky & Telescope