2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (618+ words) "It's in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching for life." This might be the closest we've gotten to finding a planet that could support life: Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like,…...

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4+ hour, 4+ min ago  (333+ words) "Hawking's laws of black hole mechanics provided a satisfying connection between extreme and ordinary physics and have been the paradigm for 50 years, but they have a serious limitation." In the 1970s, legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a letter to the…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago  (164+ words) That is quite a view. A laser star guide beams up from the Gemini South Observatory and into the Milky Way on Cerro Pachón, a mountain in central Chile. The Gemini South Observatory, located in Chile, is one of two…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (481+ words) Liftoff is scheduled for 4:22 p.m. ET — not long before the 13th test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket. Starship won't be the only SpaceX rocket flying today, if all goes according to plan. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from California's Vandenberg…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (66+ words) Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of…...

8+ hour, 34+ min ago  (578+ words) SpaceX's massive Starship, the world's largest and most powerful rocket, is scheduled to launch its critical test flight no earlier than Thursday, July 16, at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT) from Starbase, Texas. Our live webcast will begin about 30 minutes prior to liftoff. Launch…...

1+ day, 4+ min ago  (307+ words) Neutron is definitely not going to be a boring rocket. Rocket Lab has completed a major qualification test for its formidable Archimedes engine, which will power the company's next-gen Neutron launch vehicle. As Rocket Lab continues with regular launches of…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (620+ words) August 12 will see the deepest partial solar eclipse in the U.K. for many decades, hours before the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Here's where to go. Eclipse timings and sightlines are from Xavier Jubier's Interactive Google Maps; cloud cover…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (148+ words) Glacial ice carves its way downhill. Towering glaciers flow down the Himalayas' northern slopes like icy giants cascading onto China's Tibetan Plateau. Back in May, from aboard the International Space Station 259 miles (417 kilometers) above Earth, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir peered…...