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AT2024wpp, nicknamed the Whippet, briefly shone with 400 billion times the Sun’s energy. New observations from Keck, Magellan and the VLT found helium still racing outward at more than 6,000 kilometers per second, and that changes the story of what the black hole actually ate.

Forty feet beneath Launch Complex 39 sits a domed concrete bunker on springs, built to survive a fully fueled Saturn V exploding overhead. You reached it by jumping into a 200-foot slide. It was never used, and SpaceX is legally required to keep it.

Researchers at Kyoto University used the orbital drag of roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to build the first tomographic map of Earth’s thermosphere, turning a commercial broadband network into a planet-scale atmospheric sensor.

“My job now is to make sure that we can undertake such a transportation [of Discovery] within the budget dollars…

Artemis II rocket to roll back out to the pad. Engineers are targeting 8 pm EDT on Thursday, March 19,…

The first step to fighting a war in space is knowing what’s happening tens of thousands of miles above the…

Judging from recent comments from Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of US Space Command, we shouldn’t expect anything like that in…

The power crunch for AI data centers has gotten so severe that people — not just Elon Musk — are talking about…

Google and other browser makers require that all TLS certificates be published in public transparency logs, which are append-only distributed…

Orbiting 250 miles above Earth, the views from the International Space Station (ISS) are second to none, and always make…