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The Falcon 9 moon impact may create a visible flash, towering dust plume and new crater near Einstein Crater on Aug. 5.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is about to slam into the Moon on August 5

Astronomers will watch a discarded rocket stage hit the moon at 5,400 mph in a rare controlled lunar impact.

Joshua ShavitupdaPublished Jul 29, 2026 7:07 AM PDT

Einstein’s relativity explains why fast travelers age more slowly and why time never passes at one universal rate.

Space Inside the strange physics of why time stops at the speed of light Joseph Shavit

Artist’s illustration of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star.

Space Astronomers find four Barnard’s Star planets to be small, uninhabitable, with years lasting only days Joseph Shavit

Galaxy WISEA J014656.04-152214.7, located about 750 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, before and after a tidal disruption event was spotted on its outer edge in November 2025.

Space Wandering black hole found 30,000 light-years from its galaxy’s center Joseph Shavit

A high-frequency SETI search using ALMA opened new radio bands and showed that past surveys may have covered millions more stars.

Space First ALMA SETI survey searches new frequencies for signals from alien civilizations Joseph Shavit

A Solar Cycle 26 prediction uses a newly identified sunspot switch-off point to forecast solar activity up to seven years early.

Space Sunspots could predict dangerous solar storms seven years in advance Joshua Shavit

$Europa ocean water transport may stall as turbulence forms ice crystals that clog fractures beneath the moon’s surface.$

Space New findings complicate the search for life beneath Europa’s ice Joseph Shavit

Schrödinger Basin: Moon far side asteroid impacts reveal a long decline in bombardment, challenging the idea of one violent peak 3.9 billion years ago.

Space Chang’e-6 moon rocks reveal a 3.9-billion-year decline in asteroid impacts on the dark side of the Moon Joshua Shavit

Black hole Dyson spheres could harvest immense energy while releasing waste heat detectable by current telescopes.

Space Alien civilizations could be using Dyson spheres to collect energy from black holes Joseph Shavit

Interacting galaxies NGC 4676, known as "The Mice," as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars Joseph Shavit

The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. Data from that flyby and one on Feb. 3, 2024, is helping scientists understand Io’s interior.

Space Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, hides intense heat beneath its porous crust Joshua Shavit

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the centre. The star –– the point source to the left –– has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right).

Space Astronomers may have finally detected a moon located outside our solar system Joshua Shavit

SpaceX's StarMind captures solar energy in space to power low-cost, high-performance AI computation.

Space Millions of planned satellites could create a bright artificial ring around Earth making the night sky 4 times brighter Joseph Shavit

This multiwavelength scene shows the Jellyfish Nebula supernova remnant (right), the interstellar cloud it's interacting with, and a distinctive curving filament to its upper left.

Space Scientists find evidence of a rare double supernova in the Jellyfish Nebula Joseph Shavit

Artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the right. It has the widest orbit of the known three exoplanets within the system.

Space NASA’s Webb telescope detects a third giant planet orbiting Beta Pictoris Joshua Shavit

A new model raises the silver abundance in the Sun by 55%, resolving a long-standing mismatch with primitive meteorites.

Space The Sun contains 55% more silver than astronomers previously thought Joshua Shavit

Comparison of Mars before (left) and during (right) the June 2018 dust storm, which coincided with the solar energetic particle event examined by the Lancaster University team. Images taken by the Mars Color Imager (MARCI), a wide-angle camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), that maps daily weather conditions across the planet.

Space Solar storms may alter the weather on Mars, study finds Joseph Shavit