Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA
3 min read Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a scientific…
Primordial Black Holes Can Trigger Type Ia Supernovae, and Astronomers Should be Able to Find Them
Primordial black holes (PBH) remain hypothetical, but that isn’t stopping astrophysicists from figuring out how they could interact with other stellar objects. New research shows how PBHs, formed in the…
Radio Array Detects Polarized Light From a GRB
On March 10, 2026, the Fermi telescope gamma-ray burst team reported the detection of a long-duration gamma ray burst that occurred when a star exploded inside a dense, highly magnetized…
K2 Space raises $500 million for commercial, defense satellite expansion
The Series D more than doubles the satellite manufacturer’s valuation in seven months and will fund a production ramp to as many as 100 large spacecraft a year The post…
Roman Space Telescope on track for late August launch
NASA’s next flagship space telescope is set to launch in late August, nine months ahead of schedule. The post Roman Space Telescope on track for late August launch appeared first…
Jim Bridenstine on his new role at Quantum Space
In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who is now the CEO of Quantum Space. Bridenstine talks about the strategic shift to proliferation in low…
1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system — and it has a little moon
Scientists have found the first triple-lobed asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — and it has a small moon to boot. The asteroid in question is 44…
NASA Assigns Astronaut Deniz Burnham to First Space Station Mission
NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham will embark on her first mission to the…
HBO’s ‘Lanterns’ teases shape-shifting Manhunters: ‘The most dangerous beings to ever exist in the galaxy’ (video)
Trailers and teasers for HBO’s upcoming “Lanterns” series have been suspiciously devoid of much outer space footage for the intergalactic cops known as the Green Lanterns, but that’s all history…
The ELT’s Spectrograph Could Sniff Out Biosignatures on Other Worlds
Before any major telescope commissioning, there are dozens of papers that attempt to define what we can expect from it. We’re starting to see some come through for the Extremely…