A new study using the James Webb Space Telescope shows that Earendel - thought to be the most distant star known - might be a cluster of stars. The post Is Earendel the most distant star? Or a star cluster? first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
A total lunar eclipse is coming up overnight on September 7, 2025. Here are some tips for watching and enjoying the total lunar eclipse. The post Lunar eclipse: Tips for watching the total lunar eclipse first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
Coming up ... the total lunar eclipse of September 7, 2025. At maximum eclipse, the moon will look red. But why? Earth's atmosphere is the key. The post A total lunar eclipse looks red. Why? first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
The Chi Cygnids are a September meteor shower that appears to be more active every 5 years. And 2025 is one of those years! Observing info here. The post Rare Chi Cygnids are active! Maybe. Observing info here first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
View larger. | Artist’s concept of Mars being hit by a large asteroid impact. Mars’ interior is lumpy, but why? New research indicates that rocky debris in the planet’s mantle came from large impacts about 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists found the evidence in marsquake seismic data from the now-defunct InSight lander. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.| EarthSky
Three years into its mission, the James Webb Space Telescope has advanced the search for alien life more than any machine before it. What will it find next?| Latest from Live Science
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, challenging prevailing theories.| Latest from Live Science
Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.| Live Science
The Equilibrium World is the world that comes into being when everything that happens has to happen in a way that agrees with the guidelines, agrees with the standards, agrees with the ideal values that have been specified by that system. In the Equilibrium World equals , which means…| The Negative Psychologist
It’s a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey from my Hollywood history newsletter GROSS, but it’s also an essay about working in space and a comparison with Director Bong’s Mickey 17.| Bowblog
The full moon on Sept. 7, 2025 will be a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse. Here's who will see the longest total lunar eclipse since 2022.| Latest from Live Science
"Marsquake" data collected by NASA's InSight lander have revealed dozens of mysterious blobs within the Red Planet's mantle. The structures may have been left by powerful impacts up to 4.5 billion years ago.| Latest from Live Science
Asteroid 2025 QV5, which was first spotted in late August, will make a close approach to Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 3). It will not get this near to us again until Sept. 4, 2125.| Latest from Live Science
Imagine a war fought not on land or sea, but above Earth – where a single disabled satellite can disrupt global communications, financial systems and military operations. Space is no longer a distant frontier; it is a frontline of 21st-century strategic competition, shaping not just technology, but alliances, deterrence, and global influence. In recent years, […] The post Rethinking strategic competition in space appeared first on Asia Times.| Asia Times
After decades of research, an ex-NASA engineer who worked on the Hubble Telescope claims to have made a discovery that would upend our understanding of physics.| Grunge - History, Crime, Science, & Strange News
New solar flare images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal a solar flare and coronal loops in unprecedented high-resolution detail. The post Stunning new solar flare images show unprecedented detail first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
The JUICE mission successfully performed a gravity assist around Venus on August 31, 2025, helping it pick up speed for its long journey to Jupiter. The post JUICE mission to Jupiter completes Venus flyby first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
Artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole shredding and devouring a star in what’s known as a tidal disruption event. Astronomers have spotted a star that suffered this fate but survived to battle the black hole again. Image via ESO/ M. Kornmesser.Star versus black hole| EarthSky
SPACE-TIME: A Monotropism-Informed Neuroaffirming Framework for Autistic People| Autistic Realms
CSET's Kathleen Curlee was featured in a short-form documentary published by CNBC. The documentary traces SpaceX’s rise from a struggling startup to a $400 billion company that now dominates the global space industry, while raising questions about the national security implications of U.S. dependence on a single private actor. The post How The U.S. Became So Dependent On SpaceX appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology.| Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Scientists were able to pinpoint the location of the Butterfly Nebula’s central star. This had not been done before. Read more: Webb discovers what’s behind Butterfly Nebula’s signature glow| Silicon Republic
If humanity’s future really is in the stars, what will that mean when it comes to, well, making more humans? As a number of experts have pointed out, venturing into space also means exposing people to more cosmic rays than they’d experience on Earth — something that could have serious ramifications on human reproductive systems. […] The post Scientists Took a Giant Step in Understanding Reproduction in Space appeared first on InsideHook.| InsideHook
Space weather experts warn that a "strong" geomagnetic storm will rock Earth on Sept. 1-2, potentially lighting the skies with vibrant auroras across large parts of North America. The disturbance is being triggered by a rare, cannibalistic ejection from the sun.| Latest from Live Science
Space-time lies at the heart of modern physics, yet its true nature remains unclear. Is it a fixed structure, a dynamic field, or just a metaphor? The post Space-time, the interwoven fabric of space and time first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the exoplanet called GJ 9827 d, which is either a super-Earth or sub-Neptune world. Astronomers believe it is a steam world, with a lot of water vapor in its hot atmosphere. A new study focuses on how to understand steam world exoplanets better. They have hot, steamy atmospheres and layers of exotic supercritical water. Image via NASA/ ESA/ Leah Hustak (STScI)/ Ralf Crawford (STScI)/ University of Montreal.| EarthSky
“I don’t get no respect,” comedian Rodney Dangerfield once said and neither does Lady Vesper Quill. Vesper may be a newly-minted aristocrat and head of her own prosperous company because she saved a ruler and countless lives, but you wouldn’t know it based on the disgruntlement from several interested parties that do not wish her […]| Books of My Heart
The Northern Hemisphere's final full moon will be totally eclipsed in some parts of the world. Here's how to see September's full Corn Moon rise.| Latest from Live Science
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth that predated Apollo 8's famous color "Earthrise" by over two years.| Live Science
Avoid blurry stars and excessive noise — master these 5 common astrophotography mistakes to capture sharp, stunning night sky images every time.| Latest from Live Science
NASA's planet-hunting TESS telescope observed the rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS two months before it was formally "discovered," and those early observations reveal the comet is surprisingly active.| Latest from Live Science
Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.| Latest from Live Science
In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.| Latest from Live Science
Once complete, the space-based Three-Body Computing Constellation will support real-time, in-orbit data processing.| South China Morning Post
A new study proposes a novel idea for how to find aliens: Look for their deep space communications when their planets are in alignment, as seen from Earth. The post How to find aliens: Look when their planets are aligned first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
NASA scientists use TESS and Kepler data with a new method to map star spots on distant stars to enhance our understanding of stellar activity and exoplanets. The post Star spots and planetary transits on distant stars first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
A new study suggests that particles of dark matter in exoplanets could form tiny black holes, which would eventually turn entire planets into black holes. The post How dark matter in exoplanets could create new black holes first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
The new interstellar object - 3I/ATLAS - looks even more comet-like in Hubble observations, which give an estimated diameter of 5.6 km or possibly much less. The post Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS updates: Will we intercept it? first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
Research on Asteroid Bennu samples brings to light diverse characteristics that give insight into how, when and where the asteroid was formed. The post Asteroid Bennu samples reveal dramatic solar system past first appeared on EarthSky.| Space | EarthSky
Michael Jaeger captured this recent image of Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. Used with permission. Comet Lemmon is one of 5 bright comets headed toward Earth. Read more about them below.5 bright comets approaching Earth| EarthSky
As modern space missions evolve in complexity, the role of software onboard spacecraft is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Spacecraft are no longer limited to basic telemetry and remote control. Today, onboard computing must support autonomous decision-making, intelligent data reduction, and rapid responses to unforeseen conditions—all while operating under strict constraints on power, size, and reliability. Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) are the technologies dr...| riscv.org
A few days ago, I posted about a recent wildfire in Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain, sharing images of Pléiades Neo and Sentinel-2 that showed the extent of the fire. Since the Sentinel-2 data products can be downloaded for free and they include multispectral data covering 13 bands including visible, near infrared and short wave infrared… Continue reading Multispectral analysis of the Tres Cantos wildfire with Sentinel-2 data| Daniel Estévez
This post is going to be slightly unusual for the topics of this blog, because there is no RF, but nevertheless there is space-based remote sensing, which fits somewhat well with the things I usually write about. I wanted to write down this information somewhere, and it was too long for a series of tweets.| Daniel Estévez
August 26, 2025: (Spaceweather.com) The most intriguing mystery in astronomy today is the nature of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Most astronomers believe it is a comet. However, Avi Loeb of Harvard University famously makes the case that it might be something else–like alien tech. Into this debate comes new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. … Continue reading Is 3I/ATLAS Really a Comet?| Spaceweather.com
A family story that takes us millions of light-years away to get a closer view of home.| The Cincinnati Review
Introduction The publication of the Spending Review, the Industrial Strategy and the Trade Strategy in June 2025 brought a range of financial measures […] The post Working with UK Public Financial Institutions appeared first on ADS Group.| ADS Group
On the 20 August 2025, the government announced a merger of the UK Space Agency into the Department for Science, Innovation and […] The post ADS warmly welcomes the announcement of a new space unit appeared first on ADS Group.| ADS Group
What NASA calls an incoming comet, a Harvard scientist says could be an alien ship. He says it's too soon to know for sure.| Grunge - History, Crime, Science, & Strange News
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Tchaikovsky.| Mythcreants
Today's contribution to I Made It So I Might As Well Share It. Might be interesting or useful to someone else as well. A selection of some of the most iconic Star Wars ships at the same scale, with their respective volume in Traveller tons. (Traveller calls a volume of 14m³ a ton for interesting … Continue reading "More Star Wars/Traveller ship scale"| Spriggan's Den
The lunar terrain vehicle from Golden-based Lunar Outpost is competing to be NASA’s human transportation system on the moon later this decade. Rovers have been kicking up the dust in its rural testing ground in Huerfano County for two years.| The Colorado Sun
Astronomers have reported a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) imagery from February 2, 2025. The object, provisionally named S/2025 U 1, is roughly 6 miles (about 10 km) in diameter, making it the smallest known Uranian satellite and the 29th overall. NASA notes the result is science in progress… The post JWST spots a 6-mile moon hiding in Uranus’ rings appeared first on Research & Development World.| Research & Development World
SpaceX’s NASA-funded CRS-33 aims to launch no earlier than 2:45 a.m. EDT Sunday from Cape Canaveral with research focused on organ engineering, stem cells and space-based computing. The manifest features Wake Forest’s blood-vessel-containing liver tissue, Cedars-Sinai stem cell studies and Axiom Space’s Red Hat Device Edge demo, plus student experiments from Genes in Space and… The post SpaceX’s CRS-33 to deliver liver tissue, stem cells and edge computing to the ISS appeared first ...| Research & Development World
As summer winds down, I took my nephew to a few local museums. By far, the Aerospace Museum of California was his favorite. He loved seeing all the planes and playing with all the interactive materials (Legos and other type of building supplies). We spent almost four hours exploring and playing together.| Bridgette Tales
By Dick Mosier The US military is expanding its inventory of long-range maritime strike missiles such as the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), Maritime Strike Tomahawk (MST), Standard Missile 6 (SM-6), Long-Range Anti-ship Missile (LRASM), and Naval Strike Missile (NSM). These capable weapons all have ranges well beyond the effective range of the sensor systems organic … Continue reading A System of Systems Analysis is Needed for Maritime Strike→| Center for International Maritime Security
Powerful SpaceX Starship stands down Sunday for 10th test launch aiming to avoid recent failures | Orlando Sentinel
The featherlight devices are smaller than a dime and need no solar panels, propellers, or engines to move. The post These Tiny Aircraft Are Powered Entirely by the Sun’s Heat appeared first on SingularityHub.| SingularityHub
Could a pregnancy be conceived and carried safely in space? And what would happen to a baby born far from Earth?| SingularityHub
Adding a magnet could simplify the process of producing oxygen in space, making a crewed mission to Mars more feasible.| Science News
During its flyby of Mars in March 2025, the Europa Clipper spacecraft tested its radar instrument. This is a small section of the image it successfully produced of Mars’ surface. See the full radargram. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UT-Austin.| EarthSky
While there's no shortage of mysteries surrounding the formation of the universe, scientists may have figured out the answer to one of the oldest ones.| BGR
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on| Coding Horror
I’ll get onto the details of this specific book a bit further down, but first it’s worth taking a more general look at the series of which it’s the latest instalment. Coming from Reaktion Books, the series is called Kosmos and several of the previous titles have already been reviewed on this site – on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and Asteroids. Looking back at those reviews, there’s a clear common theme. They’re all nice-looking, lavishly illustrated books th...| Popular Science Books
NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece of coral.| Live Science
Mariah is keeping it iconic.| SheKnows
U-M, Johns Hopkins partnership explains a consistent pattern in the dust under moon landings.| Michigan Engineering News
I can go with your scifi/fantasy story’s super-impossible thing being associated with an eclipse. It’s activating or deactivating people’s super-powers? Sure! Certain magic spells can only be cast during an eclipse? Sure! The moon transforms into cheese? OK, whatever. (pun not intended) But please, please get the basic mechanics right! The moon’s phase is caused […] The post Eclipses and World Building first appeared on K-Squared Ramblings| Hyperborea: New Posts
Astronomers and other communicators of popular astronomy often tell us that the most recent supernova seen in our own Milky Way galaxy was Kepler’s Star, also named SN 1604, in the year 1604.…| Entropymine
Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon. Image by Neil Armstrong, NASA via Wikimedia Commons – Public Domain You have no doubt heard of Neil Armstrong, first human on the moon. But have you heard of…| cs4fn
Aug. 1, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Hurricane season just got worse. Chinese researchers have discovered a new kind of storm at the edge of space. They call it a “space hurricane.” The fir…| Spaceweather.com
Telescopes have come a long way since the first one was invented in 1608. So what's the most powerful telescope operating today, and how far can it see?| Live Science
"This jewel of a book is out there, like our beautiful planet in space; silent, modest, wonderful, waiting to be found."| Writers Review
The space economy is a rapidly developing sector projected to grow at an average annual rate of 9%, reaching over 1.5 trillion euros by 2035. However, to ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities, it is essential to address their environmental impact on Earth and beyond, from atmospheric emissions to the growing accumulation of space ...| European Science-Media Hub
The world watched on television as Neil Armstrong from Apollo 11 was the 1st human to leave footsteps on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was the 1st time humans walked on another world as he stepped onto the lunar surface, Armstrong said: “That is one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Still image via NASA video.Read all about the 1st footsteps on the moon – 56 years ago – and celebrate International Moon Day.| EarthSky
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Earth can be tiresome, but you probably wouldn’t enjoy living on the International Space Station either| Salon.com
Galileo OSNMA (open service navigation message authentication) is a cryptographic system that is used to authenticate the navigation message (satellite ephemeris and clocks, etc.) in the Galileo GNSS. I have spoken before about OSNMA in this blog, since I implemented an OSNMA library in Rust a few years back. A good introduction to OSNMA for readers unfamiliar with how it works can be found in Bert Hubert‘s short series of OSNMA posts. The OSNMA system is currently in the public observation...| Daniel Estévez
President Donald Trump nominated Space Force Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton to serve as the next vice chief of space operations and Gen. Thomas Bussiere to be the next Air Force vice chief of staff.| DefenseScoop
This day, the Fourth of July, is my favorite holiday. I love it for a few reasons. I love the summer, and the warm nights that allow me to stay outside under the stars without hunching over from chill. I love that there are at least two more months of hot weather here in the mountains, which means morning hikes and afternoon pool time. I love that the Fourth is a good reason to spend extra time with friends and family, and eat stone fruit, and make ice cream, and wear swimsuits. | The Last Word On Nothing
July 14, 2025: You know a solar flare is strong when even the Voyager spacecraft feel it. Twenty-five years ago, on July 14, 2000, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful solar storms of the Space Age—an event so intense, its shockwaves rippled all the way to the edge of the solar system. Voyager … Continue reading The Bastille Day Event, 25 Years Later| Spaceweather.com
In case you've been waiting for an update for the last seven years...| Reactor
What to know when breaking the laws of physics.| Mythcreants
All of my judgements are completely objective, how dare you.| Mythcreants
NEW YORK — A 54-pound (25-kilogram) Martian meteorite, considered the largest fragment of Mars ever discovered on Earth, is scheduled to be auctioned this week in New York. Sotheby’s has estimated the rock’s value at between $2 million and $4 million. The meteorite, officially designated NWA 16788, will be auctioned Wednesday as part of a […]| Techoreon
A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) managed to capture an impressive image of a “sprite,” an unusual type of lightning that forms in the Earth’s mesosphere. The photograph, shared on social media, has attracted attention for the beauty and rarity of this atmospheric phenomenon. The discovery Flight engineer Nichole Ayers, who is […]| Techoreon
Astronomers from around the world are monitoring the trajectory of A11pl3Z, a celestial object that could have originated outside the Solar System and is currently crossing the planetary neighbourhood of Earth, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported Wednesday. This body, described by specialists as harmless, is located near Jupiter, hundreds of millions of miles from […]| Techoreon
Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.| Science News
Teignmouth Community School have taken the silver medal at the International Youth Rocketry Championships The ‘Star Lings’ earned their place to represent […]| ADS Group
Z-Sat is a microsatellite by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that was launched in 2021. It is a demonstrator for multi-wavelength infrared Earth observation technologies. It carries an amateur radio payload that was coordinated by IARU and which consists of a BBS (bulletin board system) with a 145.875 MHz downlink and 435.480 MHz uplink. I have not been able to find more information about the amateur radio payload on this satellite.| Daniel Estévez
Researchers say the health of astronauts' microbiomes should be a concern during spaceflight, according to preliminary research.| Scienceline
Images from the most powerful astronomical discovery machine ever created, and built in California A breathtaking zoomed-in glimpse of the cosmos: this first image from the Vera C. Rubin Observator…| California Curated
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere we’re in that time of year when there is the most daylight. In this post I’ll talk about the long long summer evenings: not only does the Sun set later at this time of year but the amount of twilight, after Sun has set but it is… Continue reading Twilight and the Long Summer Evenings→| Explaining Science
In March 2019 the American Vice President Mike Pence surprised many people when he announced an extremely ambitious plan to put American astronauts on the Moon in 2024. NASA named its new crewed Mo…| Explaining Science
Pretend you are an alien and just crashed to Earth accidentally. You see the destruction of Earth and how it goes against the pacifist ways among your own species. Would you want to help humanity enter the galaxy, if it meant you could return home? Is it worth the possible destruction that humans could bring […] The post Sins of an Interstellar Species: A Unique Sci-Fi Exploration by Jacob Hefner appeared first on TBD Teacher.| TBD Teacher
I’ve read this book a few times, but honestly the Foundation TV series has left me with a new enthusiasm to re-read some Asimov stuff. I have previously read the entire extended multi-author series, and honestly a fair few of them sucked — especially the ones by other authors — so this time I have the luxury of being a bit more picky. Worse, Asimov remixed the robot stories several times into various volumes, and it can be quite confusing. The Complete Robot contains all the robot stor...| Made by Mikal
A spread for Scientific American showing puzzling lack of exoplanets in a certain size range| Visual Cinnamon
After Elon Musk’s Starlink, France’s Eutelsat is the second-largest low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite company in the world. Some Europeans see it as a solution to reining in Musk’s influence and reducing…| France 24
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are investigating phase-change as a way to improve heat-sinking in space. Earth-bound heatsinks| Electronics Weekly
Pointing the lens at dark matter.| PetaPixel
For those of you of sufficient age, you should have heard that title in your head with the stentorian voice of this fine announcer. But in all seriousness, the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command have their work cut out for them, developing doctrine and strategy and educating the public on the contributions of space to daily life in the modern world. A.P. Penaflor joins host Jacqueline Whitt in the studio to discuss space, a topic that once held nations spellbound but has become so routin...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
