space

NASA’s Webb has found a lemon-shaped exoplanet with a carbon-heavy atmosphere orbiting a pulsar, puzzling scientists.

A strange cosmic blast may mark the first-ever superkilonova, blending a supernova with a neutron star collision.

Researchers describe our growing satellite networks as a “house of cards” vulnerable to edge-case failures like extreme space weather.

A team of researchers has developed a rapid method for simulating heat shield materials in extreme reentry conditions.

Blue Origin’s latest suborbital spaceflight will break new ground, furthering the company’s mission to improve accessibility to space.

The fairing can open and close in just 1.5 seconds under flight-like conditions.

Private space companies are testing new ways to provide power for future lunar habitats.

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about how small, super-hot worlds form and evolve under extreme conditions.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos both believe space data centers can overcome AI’s power problem.

Overview Energy’s new space-based solar power concept leverages existing solar farm infrastructure to harvest sunlight at all times.

The finding reveals new details about accretion physics and the mechanics behind powerful cosmic jets.

“The race for artificial general intelligence is fundamentally a race for compute capacity, and by extension, energy,” Aetherflux founder Baiju Bhatt explained.

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment found boron-8 neutrino readings at previously unobserved energy depths.

NASA’s AVIRIS-5 takes flight to detect lithium-bearing minerals from the sky, aiding the USGS’ massive Earth MRI campaign.

A black hole in NGC 3783 unleashed winds at 37,300 m/s after an X-ray flare, seen by XRISM and XMM-Newton.

The findings strengthen the idea that the Hubble tension is not just a measurement glitch but may reflect real physics that current theories cannot explain. 

“A temporary retreat can become the foundation for the next leap forward,” a scientist explained.

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.