Browsing: Space
Space covers exploration, astronomy, and the growing commercial space industry. Articles here span rocket launches, satellites, missions to the Moon and Mars, telescopes, and the companies and agencies pushing beyond Earth. Follow this tag for the latest discoveries and milestones in space.
Researchers at Southern Illinois University engineered yeast to turn PET bottles and corn stalks into a protein rich, vanilla scented cookie called µBites. It smells good, it was funded by NASA, and no human has been cleared to taste one.
SpaceX is putting a $100 billion Starship spaceport on 125,000 acres of Louisiana marsh, with ten launch pads and a first flight targeted for 2029. The laws that shield the project from public records requests passed three months before the announcement.
A viral claim said a leaked NASA document called Project Anchor warned Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. NASA denied it, physics rules it out, and the date was chosen for a reason that explains the whole thing.
OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra solved 10 decades-old math problems for about $2,000 in compute, with formally verified proofs. Days later, the same system was hit with a Critical cyber-risk classification. Here is what happened and why mathematicians are both impressed and wary.
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.
A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland and Spain on August 12, 2026, with a partial eclipse over much of the northern US. NASA’s guidance is blunt: an unfiltered phone camera aimed at the sun can suffer permanent sensor damage.
AICore stores Google’s on device Gemini Nano model. Here is how to disable it on a Pixel to free space, and what features you give up.
Removing 50 derelict objects, mostly rocket stages, would halve space debris risk. Here is what they are, who leaves them and where cleanup missions stand.