New Glenn Completes a Hotfire Test. Next… Flight?
hosting70318340@gmail.com Blue Origin has achieved an important milestone with its New Glenn NG-1 rocket, successfully completing a 24-second hotfire of the rocket’s BE-4 engines in preparation for an expected test flight…
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New Study of Supernovae Data Suggests That Dark Energy is an Illusion
Dark energy is central to our modern understanding of cosmology. In the standard model, dark energy is what drives the expansion of the Universe. In general relativity, it’s described by…
A New Neutrino Detector In China Is Coming Online
Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they’re so hard to detect. Despite the fact that 400 trillion of them…
Early Images of 3I/ATLAS Provide Clues About Other Solar Systems
On July 1st, 2025, astronomers at NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ALERT) detected the third interstellar object (ISO) to enter our Solar System – 3I/ATLAS. Shortly thereafter, an international…
Tying Theory To Practice When Searching For Dark Energy
Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a grand, cosmological scale, though disproving them…
Ancient Brown Dwarf Reveals Cloud Chemistry Secrets
Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed “The Accident” has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that scientists have been searching for in planetary atmospheres for decades. This…
Scientists Predict 90% Chance We’ll See a Black Hole Explode Within a Decade
Stellar black holes form from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives, typically weighing 3 to 50 times the mass of the Sun. When a star…
Ancient Floods and Rolling Rocks Boosts the Hunt for Life on Mars
Europe’s upcoming Mars rover mission has received an unexpected boost in its search for signs of ancient life. The Rosalind Franklin rover, scheduled to launch in 2028, will land in…
A Rover To Mine Martian Volcanoes
Different parts of Mars have different advantages and disadvantages when it comes to their available resources, just like Earth. The polar caps are likely the most valuable in terms of…
“Black Hole Stars” Could Solve the Mystery of Little Red Dots
Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). The cut-out reveals the central black hole with it surrounding accretion disk. What makes this a black hole star is…