Read More Scince News Space 19 days ago Ancient Plutonium Stardust Still Drifts to Earth Today Scientists traced plutonium-244 in Pacific seafloor crust to a rare r-process explosion—likely a kilonova—more than 100 million years ago, revealing ancient stardust still drifting onto Earth.
Read More Scince News Space 19 days ago Dawn and Dusk Tell Different Tales on WASP-121 b, Revealed JWST has detected striking differences between the morning and evening terminators of WASP-121 b. Infrared spectra reveal temperature-driven chemistry, water dissociation, and hints of mineral clouds shaping the asymmetry.
Read More Scince News Space 22 days ago Last Look at Nancy Grace Roman: NASA's Next Flagship NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope has passed final mirror and vibration checks at Goddard and is cleared for shipment to Kennedy Space Center. The 2.4 m mirror and wide-field instrument are on track for an August launch.
Read More Scince News Space 22 days ago First Flight with Solid-State Batteries Changes Aviation Helios Horizon completed the first manned fixed‑wing flight powered by solid‑state batteries in Florida. Short test flights proved higher energy density and safer cells, marking a milestone for electric aviation.
Read More Scince News Space 23 days ago How SpaceX's Record IPO Launched Musk Into Trillionaire Orbit SpaceX's blockbuster Nasdaq debut sparked a 23% surge, lifting its market cap above $2.2 trillion and making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. The IPO raised $75B and reshaped investor bets on space, Starlink, and AI.
Read More Scince News Space 23 days ago How Elon Musk Plans a Million AI Satellites in Orbit SpaceX proposes placing up to one million AI-equipped satellites in orbit, creating orbital data centers with solar arrays, radiators and laser links. The plan leans on Starlink V3, Starship launches, and raises technical and regulatory debates.
Read More Scince News Space 25 days ago A Lost World Almost Mars-Sized Hides in Meteorites A half-kilogram meteorite (NWA 12774) holds mineral evidence that its parent body was much larger than an asteroid—possibly Moon- to Mars-sized. New geobarometry and crystal chemistry point to a vanished protoplanet once orbiting our Sun.
Read More Scince News Space 27 days ago When Stars Eat Planets: Red Dwarfs and Moon Making New research suggests planetary engulfment is common during a system's youth. Red dwarf stars, with long-lived atmospheres, may preserve chemical traces of eaten planets—offering fresh insight into planet formation and moon emergence.
Read More Scince News Space 27 days ago Why a Slow Air Leak Has NASA Rethinking ISS Repairs A persistent air leak in the ISS's Zvezda module worsened during a cargo operation, prompting a temporary crew safe haven as engineers paused a risky repair to collect more data and reassess the situation.
Read More Scince News Space 29 days ago Did Our Solar System Lose Two Missing Planets After Chaos? Simulations show that if the early Solar System included one or two extra ice giants, their ejection would likely have destabilized Uranus's moons. The result forces a rethink of the Nice model or suggests a violent reshaping of Uranus's satellite system.
Read More Scince News Space 29 days ago Record UV Wind: Black Hole Blasts Gas at 30% Light Speed Astronomers have found the fastest ultraviolet quasar wind yet in J2318: gas launched from a 1.7-billion-solar-mass black hole at ~30% of light speed. The result challenges models of radiation-driven outflows and galaxy feedback.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago Super Typhoon Sinlaku Sent Gravity Waves to Space Weather Satellites saw concentric gravity waves in mesospheric airglow above Super Typhoon Sinlaku, revealing how a rapidly intensifying storm sent ripples into the upper atmosphere and influenced weather forecasting, ionospheric disturbances, and communications.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago Roman Telescope to Reveal 100,000 Hidden Exoplanets NASA's Roman Telescope will survey the Milky Way's bulge and beyond, potentially adding ~100,000 transiting exoplanets and 1,000+ microlensing detections to our census while revealing how planet formation varies across the galaxy.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago M88: A Spiral Galaxy Stripped as It Falls into Virgo Hubble images reveal Messier 88, a spiral galaxy 63 million light-years away, being stripped of cold gas as it falls into the Virgo Cluster. Ram-pressure stripping threatens its future star formation.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago Meteor Airburst Rattles New England with 300-Ton Blast A meteor exploded over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire, producing booms equal to about 300 tons of TNT. NASA reports a 40-mile altitude airburst at roughly 75,000 mph, with residents reporting shaking houses.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago How Exploding Stars and AI Will Remap the Expanding Universe Researchers unveil CIGaRS, an AI-driven, simulation-based framework that extracts richer cosmological information from Type Ia supernovae using images alone, promising sharper dark-energy constraints for Rubin-era surveys.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago Two Strange White Dwarfs Rewrite Rules of Stellar Death Astronomers at ISTA have identified two unusual white dwarf merger remnants—Gandalf and Moon-Sized—that are ultra-massive, highly magnetic, rapidly rotating, companionless, and emit X-rays, hinting at a new class of stellar remnants.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago Inside the Sun's Record Radio Burst That Lasted 19 Days A multi-spacecraft analysis reveals a Type IV radio burst that persisted 19 days after repeated coronal mass ejections recharged a helmet streamer, offering new insights for space weather forecasting.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago A Supermassive Black Hole That Precedes Its Galaxy JWST observations reveal a 50 million‑solar‑mass black hole in Abell2744‑QSO1 only 700 Myr after the Big Bang. The black hole outpaces its tiny host, challenging standard models of black hole and galaxy coevolution.
Read More Scince News Space a month ago NASA's Webb Finds Methane on a Temperate Exo-Saturn JWST spectroscopy of TOI-199b—an exo-Saturn with Earth-like warmth—reveals methane and hints of ammonia and CO2. This first detailed study of a temperate gas giant informs models of planet formation and atmospheric chemistry.
