Research Reveals Why Tatooine Planets are Rare
Why are planets rarely found orbiting a pair of stars? UC Berkeley and American University of Beirut physicists find that general relativity makes the orbit of a tight binary pair…
Musk says SpaceX focus is on the moon rather than Mars
A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a “distraction,” Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement before sending humans to Mars. The post Musk…
Are there Hidden Dimensions to the Universe? Part 3: The Graviton Tower
To test it, I want you to imagine rolling up a piece of paper into a tight cylinder. Or, if you happen to be near a source of paper, doing…
What You Need to Know About NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Mission
jsc2026e004045 (Oct. 17, 2025) — The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for an official crew portrait. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut…
A city on the moon: Why SpaceX shifted its focus away from Mars
Just 13 months after declaring the moon “a distraction,” Elon Musk has announced that Earth’s nearest neighbor is now the focus of SpaceX’s settlement plans. What changed?
How long will the ISS operate with a skeleton crew? SpaceX’s Crew-12 astronaut mission delayed to Feb. 12
NASA and SpaceX mission managers have delayed the Falcon 9 launch of the next crew to the International Space Station as they await improved weather conditions.
‘Star Trek’ legend George Takei talks Nimoy’s directing, the future of exploration, and his sad plastic umbrella (interview)
“Science fiction is all about the imagination. And it can be exploring space or exploring that mysterious organism called our bodies.”
A Dense Clump Of Dark Matter, Not A Supermassive Black Hole, Could Reside In The Milky Way’s Center.
There’s been widespread agreement that a supermassive black hole resides in the Milky Way’s Center. But that may not be true. Researchers say that a dense clump of fermionic dark…
Netflix’s ‘War Machine’ looks like ‘Predator’ meets ‘Metal Gear’, and we’re 100% here for it
‘Whatever that thing is, it’s hunting us, and it won’t stop.’
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS survived its flyby of the sun — and gave up some secrets in the process
Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets of worlds we may never see directly.