ESA moving ahead with ‘resilience from space’ satellite imaging program
The European Space Agency is moving ahead with plans for the first phase of an Earth observation satellite system that will have both civil and military uses. The post ESA…
New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life
The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.
Go inside the development of NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope with new ‘Cosmic Dawn’ documentary
The film shows never-before-seen footage taken by the JWST film crew as the telescope was being assembled.
Astronomers discover ultrapowerful black hole jet as bright as 10 trillion suns lit by Big Bang’s afterglow
“It’s like looking for candlelight in close vicinity to a flashlight that’s blazing toward us.”
NASA sets new potential launch date for Ax-4 mission to ISS
NASA says a private astronaut mission could launch to the ISS as soon as June 19 as it works to understand an air leak on the station’s Russian segment. The…
Telescopes in Chile Capture Images of the Earliest Galaxies in the Universe
An international team of astronomers using the (https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/class/) (CLASS) (https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/telescopes-look-at-cosmic-dawn/) announced the first-ever detection of radiation from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) interacting with the first stars in the Universe.
Webb Sees the Galaxies that Cleared Out the Cosmic Fog
The early universe was shrouded in darkness. Just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, a thick fog of hydrogen gas choked the cosmos, blocking light from traveling…
A Better Way to Turn Solar Sails
Solar sails are space’s ultimate free ride, they get their propulsion from the Sun, so they don’t need to carry propellant, but they come with their own challenges. A sail…
China launches new seismo-electromagnetic satellite with European partners
China launched a second collaborative seismo-electromagnetic satellite early Saturday, aimed at detecting electromagnetic precursors to natural disasters such as earthquakes. The post China launches new seismo-electromagnetic satellite with European partners…
Cosmic Encounter review
It might come from a long time ago, but Cosmic Encounter is still one of the greatest board games in the galaxy.