Black Holes are Spinning Faster Than Expected

There’s a Universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly.…

Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks

Iain M. Banks wrote a succession of best-selling science fiction stories Joseph Branston/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty…

How to see all the solar system’s planets in the night sky at once

All the planets will appear to line up across the sky towards the end of February…

Webb Sees Light Echoes in a Supernova Remnant

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure…

ESA – Before and after space

Marcus Wandt from Sweden, left, and Sławosz Uznański from Poland, right, during a visit to Axiom Space’s…

Space Recommendations for the Second Trump…

The Trump Administration will inherit NASA at a crossroads: while the U.S. space agency continues to…

Do aliens exist? What scientists really think

A survey of 1,055 scientists, including 521 astrobiologists, found that 86.6% believe basic extraterrestrial life likely…

Wow! Binary star’s dusty rings shine in new Webb images

Watch the dust shells of Wolf-Rayet 140 fade between 2022 and 2023. NASA’s Webb Space Telescope…

NASA is Building a Space Telescope to Observe Exoplanet Atmospheres

The exoplanet census continues to grow. Currently, 5,819 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,346 star systems,…

New Glenn Reaches Orbit, but Doesn’t Recover the Booster

On Thursday, January 16th, at 02:03 AM EST, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket took off on…