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Astronomers found real sugar 27,000 light years away
Sugar found in space for the first time: erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar, detected in a molecular cloud 27,000 light years from Earth near the ...
SpaceStar formation has collapsed 59 percent and the hydrogen is still there
The star formation decline over 4.5 billion years runs near 59 percent, yet neutral hydrogen fell only 11 to 26 percent. FAST and DESI data rules out ...
SpaceIsar Aerospace makes history as Europe's first commercial orbital rocket reaches space
A German startup just did something no European commercial company had ever managed before: put a rocket into orbit. Isar Aerospace's Spectrum ...
SpaceSaturn grew a decagon at its south pole while nobody watched
Saturn decagon south pole: Hubble confirms a ten-sided jet pattern that formed between 2017 and 2023, in the gap after Cassini left the system.
SpaceBepiColombo is eight years in and finally closing in on Mercury
Europe and Japan's BepiColombo spacecraft has spent eight years threading gravitational assists around Earth, Venus, and Mercury itself to bleed off ...
SpaceBlack hole star: JWST found an object 100 billion times too bright
A black hole star spotted by JWST radiates 100 billion times more energy than any star can produce. It may finally explain the little red dots.
SpaceNASA is redesigning the Artemis IV lunar spacesuit because the timeline is slipping
NASA is redesigning the spacesuit intended for the Artemis IV lunar landing because the agency has concerns about delivering the original design on ...
SpaceThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is built to find 100,000 planets
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on 30 August and is built for width, not depth. Here is what it does that Webb cannot, and why that ...
SpaceThe LZ dark matter detector saw one event it cannot explain
LUX-ZEPLIN, the most sensitive dark matter detector ever built, has reported a single event that does not fit its background model.
SpaceChina's ZhuQue-3 just landed a rocket on legs, and reusability stopped being SpaceX's trick
LandSpace's ZhuQue-3 landed on deployable legs on 19 August 2026, the first Chinese-built rocket to pull off a leg landing.
SpaceThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is finally in Space
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has finally launched and is heading one million miles from Earth to study dark matter and dark energy. With a ...
SpaceSomething under Mars south pole is 400 degrees hotter than it should be
The Mars thermal anomaly under the south pole runs up to 400C hotter than the north, and it was found by re-reading gravity data three orbiters ...
SpaceEurope's Ariane 62 just launched a satellite that watches storms form in real time
ESA and EUMETSAT's MTG-I2 weather satellite reached orbit on Ariane 62 in the week of 23 to 30 August 2026, adding faster storm detection to Europe's ...
SpaceQuark-Gluon plasma from small nuclei: CERN made it with oxygen and neon
CERN made quark gluon plasma from small nuclei, oxygen and neon, and the fireball still carried the geometry of the nuclei that collided to create it.
SpaceA hundred year search just ended: Betelgeuse has a companion, and we have seen it
Astronomers captured the clearest Betelgeuse companion star image yet using ESO's VLT. The mass came in heavier than predicted, at two to three solar ...
SpaceA 96 percent lunar eclipse happens early Friday
The 28 August 2026 partial lunar eclipse puts 96 percent of the Moon in Earth shadow. Here are the times, where it is visible, and what you need to ...
SpaceEmpty space bent light around a magnetar, which is not something empty space should do
Vacuum birefringence around a magnetar may have been detected for the first time, 90 years after Heisenberg and Euler predicted empty space could ...
SpaceThe Roman Space Telescope launches Sunday and it sees 100 times more sky than Hubble
The Roman Space Telescope launch date is 30 August 2026. Same 2.4-metre mirror as Hubble, but it captures at least 100 times more sky per exposure.
SpaceHow scientists measure dark energy when nobody can see it
How do scientists measure dark energy? Not by looking at it. They measure what it has done to a billion galaxies, using two techniques and a very ...
SpaceWebb's sharpest view yet of the Lion Nebula
Webb lion nebula image: NIRCam and MIRI combined to show NGC 2392's illuminated dust mane and the white dwarf carving it, 6,000 light-years away in ...
SpaceSpaceX Starship's eighth integrated flight test achieved full reuse for the first time
SpaceX has been methodical about Starship in a way that can make individual milestones feel incremental until you step back and look at what has ...
SpaceThe sharpest image of the Sun ever taken resolves detail the size of a city
The Inouye Solar Telescope has taken the sharpest visible light image of the Sun ever, resolving city sized detail and confirming a long predicted ...
SpaceS301 is the fastest star in the Milky Way, and it can feel Sagittarius a* spin
S301, the fastest star in the Milky Way, laps our black hole every 8.7 years at 25,000 km/s, close enough to measure how fast Sagittarius A* spins.
SpaceA black hole shredded a Super sun and something appears to have survived
AT2024wpp, the Whippet, released as much energy as 400 billion Suns when a black hole tore a massive star apart. Then the helium did something odd.
SpaceWebb found water half a light year from the Milky Way's black hole
Webb found water near the Milky Way black hole, 0.55 light years from Sagittarius A*, in a region astronomers had assumed was far too hostile for it.