New research looking at the cosmological constant problem suggests the expansion of the universe could be an illusion.
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Summer solstice 2023 marks longest day in the Northern Hemisphere as Earth's seasons change
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere begins on June 21 as the summer solstice 2023 occurs at 10:57 a.m. EDT (1457 GMT), marking the longest day of the year.
Mysterious flare a trillion times brighter than our sun could be a 'disc inferno' ripping a baby planet apart
Astronomers have discovered what may be behind a mysterious stellar flare that has been raging for 85 years, finding it could be caused by the destruction of a super-Jupiter planet.
Secret Invasion season 1 episode 1 review: Marvel finds the right spy thriller tone, but the pulse isn’t there
Marvel returns to Disney Plus with their new spy thriller. In episode 1, Samuel L. Jackson leads an all-star cast that wrestles with a mundane set-up.
NASA astronaut Leland Melvin talks Black history, education and dogs (exclusive)
Retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin (with his 2 dogs) talked with Space.com about his latest course for kids, and the in-space educational event he once did celebrating Black history.
Stonehenge's summer solstice orientation is seen in monuments all over the UK in amazing photos
Stone circles and ancient tombs dot much of the UK landscape. As the summer solstice reaches Stonehenge, photographer Josh Dury shares other Neolithic monuments that face the sun.
Paris Air Show Live - Press briefing on Space Transportation
Video: 00:40:18
Watch the replay of the press briefing on space transportation from Paris Air Show 2023. Speakers will share the current status of the Ariane 6 programme, and the next key milestones towards the inaugural flight.
Paris Air Show 2023 in pictures – Day 3
We are almost halfway through the week of the 54th edition of the Paris Air Show.
Chinese astronauts install radiation-exposure experiment outside Tiangong space station (video)
The newly placed Tiangong gear will help researchers study the impact of cosmic radiation and microgravity on plants and animals and the origin and evolution of life.
Europe hands Artemis 2 moon mission's service module over to NASA
The module that will supply power, life support, water, fuel and propulsion to NASA's Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon is now in the agency's hands.
Live coverage: ULA scrubs Delta 4-Heavy launch attempt
Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter.
BepiColombo Mission Makes Third Mercury Flyby
The Mercury-bound BepiColombo Mission made its third flyby past the solar system’s innermost world on June 19th.
Astronomers Find a White Dwarf Pulsar
When astronomers talk about the “end states” of stellar evolution, several categories come to mind: black holes, neutron stars/pulsars, and white dwarfs. What happens if one star ends up in two of these states? That’s the case with a genre-breaking white dwarf pulsar called J191213.72-441045.1 (J1912-4410 for short). It’s part of a binary pair that includes a red dwarf star.
JWST Glimpses the Cosmic Dawn of the Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, the very job it was created for. First conceived during the 1990s, and with development commencing about a decade later, the purpose of this next-generation telescope is to pick up where Spitzer and the venerable Hubble Space Telescope (HST) left off – examining the infrared Universe and looking farther back in time than ever before. One of the chief objectives of Webb is to observe high-redshift (high-Z) galaxies that formed during Cosmic Dawn.
Missing Titanic submersible built with NASA help
Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama advised on the development of the missing submersible, which is named Titan.
'Babylon 5: The Road Home' trailer for the new animated drops
Needless to say, this news has been nothing less than a seismic event in the sci-fi social media circles.
The Suspense is Killing Us. The Next Planet in the TRAPPIST System Gets the JWST Treatment
The TRAPPIST-1 system is easily the most exciting collection of exoplanets ever discovered by astronomers. The system contains seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. Several of the planets are in the star’s habitable zone.
European probe captures stunning up-close views of planet Mercury during brief flyby (video, photos)
Europe's Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing a surface riddled with craters, including one that just received a name.
The loneliest monster black holes may also be the hungriest
Solitary supermassive black holes lurking in less populated areas of the universe munch on material more commonly than their more crowded counterparts, a new study reports.
An Unfortunate Planet is Undergoing “Extreme Evaporation,” Melting Under the Extreme Heat From its Star
FU Orionis is an unusual variable star. It was first seen as a magnitude 16 star in the early 1900s, but in the mid-1930s it rapidly brightened to a magnitude 9 star. The rapid brightening of a star was not unheard of, but in this case, FU Orionis did not fade to its original brightness. Since 1937 it has remained around magnitude 9, varying only slightly over time. For decades the mysterious star was thought to be unique, but in the 1970s similar stars were observed, and are now known as FU Orionis objects. Astronomers still had no real idea what could cause such a dramatic change, but a new study argues that it could be caused by a dying young planet.
Watch Delta IV Heavy rocket launch US spy satellite on penultimate mission early Wednesday
United Launch Alliance's powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to fly for the second-to-last time early Wednesday morning (June 21), and you can watch the liftoff live.
