Golden Dome faces 2027 funding cliff
Gen. Michael Guetlein says Congress must find a way to finance the next phase as most initial funding is already committed The post Golden Dome faces 2027 funding cliff appeared…
Every Snowflake Needs a Speck of Dust and So Do Planets
A snowflake cannot form out of nothing. Water vapour will sit in the air quite happily, supercooled and reluctant, until it finds a speck of dust to build on and…
The Dark Matter Detector in the Scottish Borders
Hunting for dark matter usually means building something enormous and burying it — a tank of liquid xenon in a mine, a magnet the size of a lorry, decades of…
What Is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope? (Grades 5-8)
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This article is for students grades 5-8. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory. The…
What If There’s a Star Inside a Black Hole?
Ask what lies inside a black hole and the honest answer has always been a bit of a shrug and something about a singularity, a point where density becomes infinite…
National lab visit boosts NASA’s confidence in space nuclear propulsion mission
NASA officials say they are confident in plans to launch a nuclear electric propulsion demonstration mission by the end of 2028 after visiting the national lab building the mission’s reactor.…
Scientists create largest 2D map of the universe with 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion cosmic objects
Astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever created, offering a sweeping new view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects across roughly three-quarters of the sky. The…
Scientists find 2 million active black holes, exploding stars and more, nearly doubling our view of the high-energy universe
Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources, offering the most comprehensive public view yet of the universe’s hottest and most energetic objects. The second major public…
NASA Completes Astronaut-Deployed Science Instrument for Lunar Surface
The fully-integrated LEMS (Lunar Environment Monitoring Station) ready for environmental testing. A small suitcase-size instrument suite built at NASA Goddard, LEMS is designed to carry out continuous, long-term monitoring of…
‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’: Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, & Carol Kane on season 4’s big leaps and ‘outside the box’ episodes
Season 4 of Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is off to a roaring start with episodes already airing centered around primeval dinosaurs, a haunted starship, and a hedonistic pleasure…