Building Saudi Arabia’s space champion
Neo Space Group CEO Martijn Blanken explains how the Saudi-backed space services company is balancing sovereign demand with global ambitions. The post Building Saudi Arabia’s space champion appeared first on…
Hubble Images Celestial Cigar’s Smoldering Heart
Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits…
Doubt Creeps Into Hayabusa 2’s Planned Visit To Its Next Asteroid
Hayabusa 2 may need to alter its visit to its next target. VLT observations show that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is three times smaller than thought and spinning much more…
Catch a Far-Flung Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
Subtle astronomical events can still produce memorable scenes, hidden away in distant locales. Such a spectacle goes down on Sunday/Monday, September 21st/22nd, with a partial solar eclipse. Although the eclipse…
It’s Official. We Now Know Of 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets
NASA says we now know of 6,000 confirmed exoplanets. At first there was just a trickle of discoveries. But the pace has quickened and shows no signs of slowing down.
Black Hole Merger Provides Clearest Evidence Yet that Einstein, Hawking, and Kerr were Right
When two black holes collide and merge, they release gravitational waves. These waves can be detected by sensitive instruments on Earth, allowing scientists to determine the mass and spin of…
Bad News And Good News: Hycean Worlds Aren’t Real, But Earth’s Water Isn’t Unusual
New research shows that the purported water world K2-18b isn’t a marine world with a deep ocean. In fact, so-named Hycean worlds may not exist at all. But on the…
Launch startup iSpace secures fresh funding as hot fire tests heat up China’s reusable rocket race
Launch startup iSpace has raised significant series D+ funding as commercial competitors in China report progress with hot fire tests. The post Launch startup iSpace secures fresh funding as hot…
Where are all the ‘hot Neptune’ exoplanets? Orbital chaos may have booted them out
A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon astronomers call the hot-Neptunian desert.
‘It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.’ Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes
Mysteriously powerful cosmic winds around neutron star may be ‘game-changer’ for understanding monster black holes