Why October is the perfect time to look for the Andromeda galaxy
October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky.
How scientists are using spinning dead stars to find ripples in the fabric of spacetime
Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect primordial gravitational waves that date back to inflation at the moment of the Big Bang.
Watch the moment a brilliant green fireball meteor turns night to day over Tennessee (video)
A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting as it neared the surface.
Foldable Solar Sails Could Help With Aerobraking and Atmospheric Reentry
Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna deployments on satellites to rover deformation and reformation. One of the…
Beyond the downlink: Why Earth-independent AI is the next moat in space operations
Every new space mission runs into the same wall: physics and fragility. Physics, because the speed of light and contested spectrum make real-time decision-making from the ground impossible when you…
Beyond Gravity plans US push after fivefold boost in European solar mechanism output
Beyond Gravity is weighing expanding solar array drive mechanism production in Florida to support Golden Dome and other U.S. space projects, after doubling manufacturing space in Europe for hardware that…
Humble Yeast Has Planetary Survival Skills
Rather randomly I’ve just returned from a theatre tour where my science show featured yeast in one of the experiments, so when research about yeast surviving Martian conditions crossed my…
When Fire Brought Ice to Mars
Mars is a planet of mystery! Its surface today is cold and dry, yet evidence suggests it was once home to flowing water. Most of the planet’s remaining ice sits…
When Tides Turn White Dwarfs Hot
White dwarfs are stellar corpses, the slowly cooling remnants of stars that ran out of fuel billions of years ago. Our Sun will eventually share this fate, collapsing into a…
Solving the Mystery of Solar Rain
It rains on the Sun! Although not in any way we’d recognise from Earth. In the Sun’s corona, the superheated atmosphere that extends millions of kilometres above its visible surface,…