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An AI-assisted mission plan could send a solar-electric spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri by 2029 on an 80,000-year journey.
A nonprofit wants to begin humanity’s first deliberate voyage toward another star using solar power, electric thrust and patience.
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Models show a hypothetical ancient Venusian moon could reverse its orbit, break apart and disappear through tidal evolution.
SpaceTidal forces may have doomed an ancient moon around VenusJoshua Shavit
JWST detected CO₂ and icy dust around Centaur 450P/LONEOS, revealing how a frozen outer solar system body may become comet-like.
SpaceJWST detected an icy world beyond Jupiter transforming into a cometJoseph Shavit
Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions, produced as gas falls into a supermassive black hole.
SpaceAstronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black holeJoseph Shavit
Graphene advances and a Moon-anchored Spaceline offer two possible routes toward cheaper travel between Earth and deep space.
SpaceA space elevator connecting Earth and the Moon could be closer than everJoseph Shavit
Artistic interpretation of the distant planetary system PDS 70. Possible exocomets around PDS 70 may reveal how giant planets send icy bodies and water toward regions where rocky worlds form.
SpaceAstronomers spot signs of comets transporting water to a young solar system PDS 70Joseph Shavit
Solar Orbiter found a sharp change in heavy-ion composition inside the Sun’s vast heliospheric current sheet.
SpaceESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals how the Sun’s corona transforms into solar windJoseph Shavit
JWST found four candidate pairs of little red dots that may reveal how rapidly growing black holes merged in the early universe.
SpaceJWST finds mysterious red objects pairing up in the early universeJoseph Shavit
Star formation plunged over 4.5 billion years, but cosmic neutral hydrogen barely changed, pointing to a different bottleneck.
SpaceThe universe still has plenty of hydrogen, so why is it making fewer stars?Joseph Shavit
Artist concept of Mars's warm southern interior. Mars’s southern mantle may be 200 to 400°C hotter than the north, revealing a deep divide beneath the planet’s surface.
SpaceMars’s mantle may be hundreds of degrees hotter beneath one hemisphereJoseph Shavit
Radio telescopes on the Moon’s far side could detect ancient hydrogen and reveal the universe before the first stars formed.
SpaceThe Moon’s far side could open a window into the universe before the first stars were bornJoseph Shavit
Complex flow patterns develop in the interiors of rapidly rotating stars. An international research team has now experimentally demonstrated for the first time a flow state characteristic of such celestial bodies. The artistic visualization shows a star characterized by turbulent structures.
SpaceScientists reproduce a long-predicted flow state from deep inside planetsJoshua Shavit
Experiments show strong stellar magnetic fields can stop coronal mass ejections, helping explain why astronomers rarely detect them.
SpacePowerful magnetic fields could be trapping giant stellar eruptions before they escapeJoseph Shavit
SpaceNASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to map billions of galaxies and hunt distant worldsJoseph Shavit
A powerful pulsed magnet expands the shock layer around spacecraft models, advancing a possible new approach to surviving reentry heat.
SpacePowerful new magnetic system could help spacecraft survive the brutal heat of reentryJoseph Shavit
Mercury may contain far less silicon dioxide than thought, offering new clues to its volcanic past and intensely hot interior.
SpaceMercury’s surface chemistry reveals clues to a much hotter volcanic pastJoseph Shavit
Astronomers estimate 40 quintillion stellar black holes fill the observable universe and hold nearly 1% of ordinary matter.
SpaceThe universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holesJoseph Shavit