NASA X-ray spacecraft discovers supernova wreckage at the heart of the Milky Way
NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour.
DARPA to explore ways to rapidly rebuild satellite networks if attacked
The agency is seeking novel concepts to restore critical satellite services within hours or weeks The post DARPA to explore ways to rapidly rebuild satellite networks if attacked appeared first…
What’s the Best Way to Monetize Space Energy?
By Marc Berte, Founder and CEO of Overview Energy AI is making energy valuable enough that we’re reconsidering where infrastructure should live. Space is increasingly where that conversation leads. Orbital…
Sustained maneuver has a propulsion problem
For years, space architecture was treated mostly as a question of placement: where to put a spacecraft, and how reliably it could hold position. That framing is now too narrow.…
Why Consciousness Might Not Belong to Us Alone
We have spent centuries being knocked off our pedestal. Earth isn’t the centre of the Solar System, the Sun isn’t the centre of the Galaxy, and we are not the…
The Little Red Dots That Turned Out to Be Black Holes in Disguise
For three years they’ve been one of the strangest puzzles in astronomy. Tiny, mysterious red dots scattered across the early universe, so abundant and so bright that some researchers wondered…
New Study Assesses Titan’s Resources and their Potential Uses
In a recent NASA-supported study, researchers assessed Titan’s resource base and how it could be leveraged for ISRU. Compared with other locations under study (the Moon, Mars, etc.), they concluded…
Catch Mercury shining at its best on June 15 before it slips back into the sun’s glare
Mercury will appear farthest from the sun in its current evening apparition on June 15.
Venus’ Strange Rotation Was Likely Triggered By A High Velocity Moon-Sized Impactor
Venus’ extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation was likely caused by a chance encounter with a moon-sized impactor. One that some 4.5 billion years ago likely slammed into our sister planet at…
How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago
Written in the 1860s, Jules Verne’s novels “From the Earth to the Moon” and “All Around the Moon” were highly speculative fiction in their time, but tell a tale that…