The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed many wonders of the early universe, but few discoveries have puzzled astronomers more than some mysterious "little red dots." These tiny, brilliant galaxies appear scattered across deep space images like cosmic breadcrumbs, challenging everything scientists thought they knew about how galaxies formed in the early universe.
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The JWST Shows Us That TRAPPIST-1d Is Not As Earth-Like As We Hoped
When global events set our minds to wondering if humanity has what it takes to persist, it's natural to wonder about other worlds, other life, other intelligent species, and if those others might be better suited to survive whatever Great Filters they face. Those are fanciful thoughts, but there's an underpinning of nuts-and-bolts thinking to them. It starts with identifying which planets in habitable zones around other stars might actually be habitable.
TRAPPIST-1d isn't the Earth-like planet scientists had hoped it to be, according to JWST data
As another world around TRAPPIST-1 shows no signs of an atmosphere, astronomers urge us not to give up hope for an Earth-like atmosphere on one of the other worlds in the system.
US Space Force's new deep space radar tracks multiple satellites 22,000 miles away in key test
The U.S. Space Force's powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth has passed an initial key test.
Discovery of 250 'mini galaxies' could help scientists pin down the nature of dark matter
Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.
Blue Origin pitches new 'Mars Telecommunications Orbiter' for Red Planet missions (video)
Blue Origin has used its Blue Ring spacecraft platform to develop the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, which the company says could aid future NASA missions to the Red Planet.
Trump signs executive order to boost commercial space — and shift NASA's balance of power
The executive order directs multiple federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport construction and better support emerging in-space industries.
MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5: from cleanroom to space
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Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).
SpaceX sends 28 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Falcon 9 flight from Florida (video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday morning (Aug. 14), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.
I tried to image the Veil Nebula but accidentally got an 'Alien' Xenomorph (photo)
As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain.
Why Kirk's main character energy is bad news for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'
The future captain of the Enterprise eclipses his co-stars every time he appears in "Strange New Worlds."
Don't miss the moon rendezvous with the Pleiades in the early morning sky Aug. 16–17
The moon will drift towards the Pleiades and Uranus in the early hours of Aug. 16-17.
SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft approaches the ISS | Space photo of the day for Aug. 14, 2025
SpaceX's Crew-11 mission delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
A Simple Instrument Could Find Martian DNA - If It Exists
Mars still holds the promise of being one of the first places in the solar system humanity will colonize. However, if there was evolutionarily distinct, extant life on the planet, it might sway the heart of even the most ardent Mars colonization fans. So astrobiologists are in a race against time to try to determine whether or not such life exists, before the entire planet becomes an analogue of the Earth’s biosphere, if only unintentionally, and only a shadow of the ones that exists here. A new paper from the Christopher Temby and Jan Spacek of the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) team discusses one of the most promising ways to prove definitively that life exists on the Red Planet - finding polyelectrolyte polymers - in other words, DNA.
Hidden fault beneath Canada could trigger massive earthquake after 12,000 years of silence
Advanced satellite and lidar mapping has uncovered signs that the Tintina fault in Canada's Yukon may be primed for a powerful earthquake.
FLEX instrument meets its satellite
Image: The development of ESA’s Earth Explorer FLEX mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission’s all-important instrument has been joined to its satellite platform.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California with new batch of Starlink satellites
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Aug. 14, 2025.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is preparing to launch a batch of 28 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit minutes before sunrise on Thursday morning.
When Dwarfs Dance, Do Galaxies Merge?
Astronomers are confident that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, merge, or at least interact with one another in the next few billion years. What will that merger look like? Both galaxies have dwarf galaxies, and astronomers want to know if their behaviour can predict the future of the merger.
The Vibrational Lives of Black Holes
Black holes appear stranger and more bewildering the more deeply scientists study them. They display complex characteristics that defy simple explanations. One such characteristic is the vibrations they emit when perturbed.
China launches 8th batch of satellites for 13,000-strong internet megaconstellation (video)
A Long March 5B rocket launched the eighth batch of satellites for China's Guowang broadband network on Wednesday (Aug. 13). It was the fourth Guowang launch in less than three weeks.
