SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites from California

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star, a white dwarf, located some 80 light-years away. This “life after death” system gives scientists a portentous vision of what the solar system may look like in around 6 billion years after the sun has…

As July begins, three planets adorn the early evening sky. Look toward the northwest and you’ll see Venus. The planet shines brilliantly at magnitude –4.1 and shows up easily 30 minutes after sunset. It creeps slowly away from the Sun and into a darker sky as July progresses. Venus also becomes more attractive through a…

While I’ve been going through early extraterrestrial ideas like those of Ronald Bracewell I’ve run back into that most unpronounceable of stellar objects, Przybylski’s Star. This one is worth a return look and I was reminded of it by author and futurist John Michael Godier on his Event Horizon podcast. I do few interviews but…

Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, has just given scientists a clearer picture of what lies above its hidden ocean. A long‑running radar study from Earth shows that Europa’s ice shell reflects radio waves in a very unusual way, strengthening the case that a deep layer of water sits beneath the surface and offering useful…

For centuries, parchment manuscripts have preserved far more than the words written on their pages. Researchers have now uncovered a hidden layer of biological information locked inside these historic documents, opening a new avenue for studying the past without compromising the artifacts themselves. Historic parchments have long fascinated historians for the stories recorded in their…

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