3+ hour, 10+ min ago  (374+ words) The space startup Impulse Space has raised $500 million and plans to spend it primarily on people. The company wants to hire up to 200 new specialists, as it believes that artificial intelligence is not yet capable of replacing engineers when it…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago  (309+ words) NASA has completed the final inspection of the primary mirror of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The spacecraft will soon launch into space and take up a position 1. 5 million kilometers from Earth, from where researchers will observe the universe…...

5+ hour, 42+ min ago  (316+ words) A fragment found in the Sahara has turned out to be a remnant of a long-vanished protoplanet that may have been as large as the Moon or even Mars. This is the most compelling evidence yet that a large planetary…...

8+ hour, 31+ min ago  (489+ words) Last week, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a test in Florida. The company's CEO stated that, despite this, the rocket will launch again by the end of 2026. This decision came as a surprise to the entire space industry....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (248+ words) The explosion caused significant damage to LC-36currently Blue Origin's only launch pad capable of supporting the launch of a rocket the size of New Glenn. The scale of the destruction was so vast that it can even be seen from space....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (296+ words) Physicists have developed a new method for measuring the expansion of the Universe that could be four times more accurate than current approaches. The method relies on data from stellar explosions in galaxies, which is analyzed by artificial intelligence. Type…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (414+ words) Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after 210 days in orbit. The mission was originally scheduled to last the standard six months, but damage to the capsule caused by space debris forced a change of plans. The crew spent an extra month…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (444+ words) In 2012, a NASA research probe confirmed a fact that had seemed like science fiction: on Mercury'a planet that is literally baking in the sun's rays'there are vast deposits of water ice. They are hidden in deep polar craters where sunlight…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (416+ words) Between 4 and 4. 5 billion years ago, the outer Solar System underwent a period of extreme instability. The orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune became sharply destabilized; the planets drew closer to one another, exchanged powerful gravitational interactions, and eventually dispersed…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (573+ words) Dark energy has remained one of the most enigmatic elements of modern cosmology since it first entered scientific discourse three decades ago. However, new research shows that it is entirely possible to construct a mathematical model of the expanding universe…...