Already high in the east an hour after sunset is the constellation Lyra the Lyre, easy to locate thanks to its brightest star, magnitude 0 Vega. Tonight, we’re looking southeast of this star at M56, an 8th-magnitude globular cluster in near the border of Lyra and Cygnus. In fact, one of the easiest ways toContinue reading "The Sky Today on Saturday, July 12: M56 in Lyra"

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Xiaofeng Qu, taken from Lijiang, Yunnan, China The Geminid meteor shower appears to rain down upon the Gaomeigu Astronomical Observatory (altitude: 10,500 feet [3,200 meters]) in this carefully composed 10-panel panorama. Also visible are numerous Hα features glowing across the sky, like the Orion Loop just above the observatory dome. The imager used 4 NikonContinue reading "High-altitude shower"

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I thought I’d write a bit about several eye-related topics. First up is resolution, which is the ability to see details in objects. We have decreased resolution at night, and little color vision as well, for multiple reasons: reduced numbers of retinal cells firing, the color shift in sensitivity vs. the focus ability of theContinue reading "Michael’s Miscellany: The Eyes Have It"

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There is a battle brewing over ownership of a retired NASA space shuttle. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump at the White House last week, sets aside $85 million to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from its current home at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northernContinue reading "Smithsonian pushing back on plans to relocate space shuttle"

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On July 11, 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery, c/1801 N1. When he’d began his career in 1789 as a doorkeeper (essentially, a concierge) at Marseille Observatory, the directors had recognized his talents and taught him more about astronomy. That background, combined with his exceptional observational skills and the ability toContinue reading "July 11, 1801: Jean-Louis Pons finds his first comet"

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There’s a demon in the early-morning sky, amid the stars of Perseus the Hero. Second-magnitude Algol (Beta Persei) is also famously known as the Demon Star, and you can spot it two hours before sunrise, standing 30° high in the east, to the upper left of the Pleiades.  Algol is dubbed a demon because everyContinue reading "The Sky Today on Friday, July 11: The demon in the morning sky"

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Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 11The Moon passes just 0.02° north of the dim, distant dwarf planet Pluto at 7 P.M. EDT. However, the bright light from our satellite will make Pluto — already a challenging object requiring the largest amateur instruments — even more difficult toContinue reading "The Sky This Week from July 11 to 18: The Moon hangs with Saturn and Neptune"

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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy would serve as an “interim administrator” of NASA. “He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform.Continue reading "Trump taps Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as ‘interim’ NASA head"

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In a galaxy not so far, far away, here are the 10 best Lego Star Wars sets released so far this year, now that Prime Day is underway.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of the Cat's Paw Nebula.

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The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions are still ongoing.

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Chuck Ayoub from Redford, MI Globular cluster M53 in Coma Berenices (at right) is accompanied by fainter NGC 5053 (at left). Astronomers have reported evidence for a tidal tail, suggesting the pair have interacted in the past. The imager took 2.5 hours of exposure with a Celestron RASA 8-inch f/2 scope and a one-shot colorContinue reading "An ancient pair"

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Quasars were a mystery when first discovered in the early 1960s. They are extremely distant, starlike objects that emit enormous amounts of energy. Years later, astronomers understood that quasars are the extremely energetic centers of young galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes. The fact that they are mostly young (the black holes generally quiet downContinue reading "Deep-Sky Dreams: NGC 3079 and Quasar 0957+561   "

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have probed the dusty shells that surround dying stars called Wolf-Rayet stars.

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In a combined image from the two space telescopes, two star clusters shine in the darkness of space.

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The scientific and cultural impact of 3I/ATLAS over the coming months and years will serve as an exemplar of what astronomy can learn and why it matters.

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As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

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Few authors have had as big an impact on space journalism as Jeffrey Kluger. His 1994 book Lost Moon, co-authored with Astronaut James Lovell, was the basis for the 1995 film Apollo 13, which starred Tom Hanks and was directed by Ron Howard. Other books by Kluger have focused on the flight of Apollo 8 and NASA’s unmannedContinue reading "Behind the scenes of NASA’s Project Gemini: Astronomy chats with Jeffrey Kluger"

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Inventor Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia (then part of the Austrian Empire). In 1899, Tesla recorded cosmic radio waves in his Colorado Springs, Colorado, laboratory. Though he believed the waves were extraterrestrial signals from another planet, today we know that they are part of the spectrum of anContinue reading "July 10, 1856: The birth of Nicola Tesla"

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Author(s): Charles Day

A mechanism for accelerating charged particles in astrophysical plasmas has been reproduced with cold atoms in an optical trap.

[Physics 18, 131] Published Wed Jul 09, 2025

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

A new algorithm efficiently ranks competitors in settings ranging from sports tournaments to food-preference surveys.

[Physics 18, s80] Published Wed Jul 09, 2025

Author(s): Susan Curtis

Experiments with turbulent waves show that energy spreads from small to large scales, producing a steady-state regime that can be described using classical thermodynamics.

[Physics 18, 129] Published Tue Jul 08, 2025

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

A fluid made of light can simulate a black hole’s boundary, providing insights into the mysterious quantum phenomena that occur at such a boundary.

[Physics 18, s92] Published Tue Jul 08, 2025

Full Moon occurs at 4:37 P.M. EDT this afternoon and will rise in the southeast around the time the Sun is setting in the northwest. The July Full Moon is also called the Buck Moon, and this month our satellite also rises at its farthest point south in 18.6 years: some 7° more southerly thanContinue reading "The Sky Today on Thursday, July 10: The Full Buck Moon swings low"

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As the Axiom-4 mission approaches its two-week mark before returning to Earth, the private space mission crew discusses science and pierogis.

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Scientists had assumed that the ice in space was purely amorphous, but new experiments show it can have a partly crystalline structure similar to ice on Earth.

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"You can think of it as a cosmic pool game. We might miss the pocket if we don't consider all the variables."

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Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

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The ringed giant had previously risen in the early morning and predawn hours as a "morning star."

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Unquestionably, one of the best Amazon Prime Day Lego deals available is 30% off the near-2000-piece Lego Technic NASA Lunar Roving Vehicle.

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The discovery of a monster-sized black hole in a pristine galaxy unspoiled by stellar death suggests growth via mergers between primordial black holes formed during the Big Bang.

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The "Hubble tension," one of the most frustrating and lingering problems in science, could be solved if Earth and the Milky Way sit in a low-density void.

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You've got less than two days to snap up these Amazon Prime Day 2025 telescope deals, saving up to $600 on skywatching gear.

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The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves inward through the solar system.

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When President Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law on July 4, an amendment to the legislation introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) provided NASA with additional funding beyond the standard fiscal year 2025 budget. This extra money — around $9.9 billion — is intended to support key programs like Artemis, theContinue reading "Congress adds Artemis funding to Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” backing NASA’s Moon return plans"

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On July 9, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft came within 404,003 miles (650,180 kilometers) of Jupiter. Launched in August 1977, the Voyager probes were originally planned to study Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 1 arrived at Jupiter in March 1979, and Voyager 2 followed a few months later. Equipped with narrow- and wide-angle cameras, an interferometer,Continue reading "July 9, 1979: Voyager 2’s Jupiter visit"

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Adriano Anfuso/Vikas Chander The elliptical galaxy NGC 474 (lower right) contains multiple shell-like structures and tidal tails as a result of past interactions with other galaxies. The galaxy is currently interacting with a neighboring spiral galaxy, NGC 470 (just to its left). The lenticular galaxy NGC 467 (at left) is a background galaxy, more thanContinue reading "Shells of its former self"

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Venus hangs below the Pleiades in the early-morning sky today. The bright planet is quickly closing in on Taurus’ brightest star, Aldebaran, which it will pass closely next week. Step outside 90 minutes before sunrise to spot blazing Venus (magnitude –4.1) about 8.4° below the Pleiades open cluster (M45) in the east. The planet isContinue reading "The Sky Today on Wednesday, July 9: Venus and the Pleiades"

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President Donald Trump says he withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator after learning of his donations to Democratic political candidates.

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Astronomers use algorithms to analyze the numerous images coming from space, but how accurate are they?

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Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the current cost while achieving key science goals.

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These are the best Amazon Prime Day model rocket deals available as we count down the top offers on rockets and accessories during the sales event.

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"We know that some microbes on Earth can tolerate the range of pH found on Enceladus."

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Radar signals from "leaky" civilian and military aviation systems could act as a beacon to alien life, revealing intelligent life on Earth while helping us pinpoint them.

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Find out what time the full moon rises on July 10, 2025, how to see the Buck Moon from your location, and why it looks bigger near the horizon.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on July 8, 2025.

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The discovery could explain why younger stars seem to have more lithium than the Big Bang theory says they should have.

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At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could affect operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST.

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In July 1992, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made its closest approach to Jupiter, skimming 25,000 miles (40,000 km) above Jupiter’s cloud tops. That put Shoemaker-Levy 9 within the gas giant’s Roche limit; the planet’s tidal forces broke the comet into more than 20 pieces, giving it a “string of pearls” appearance and setting the stage forContinue reading "July 8, 1992: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 breaks up"

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Aboard the International Space Station, Ayers pulls out physics research hardware inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox

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Steve Leonard from Markham, Ontario, Canada The Spider Nebula (Sharpless 2–234, at right) weaves a tangled web next to the Fly, also known as NGC 1931 (at left). The imager used a dynamic Foraax palette on 20¼ hours of SHORGB data to bring out detail across the wide dynamic range of the scene, yielding detailContinue reading "Cosmic predation"

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We've rounded up the best Amazon Prime Day drone deals but they're really flying so you'll have to hurry!

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The Sony A7 III is $1380 from Walmart on this anti-Prime deal and is a huge $118 cheaper than Amazon!

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Canadian company NordSpace hopes to be the first in the country's history to launch an orbital rocket from Canadian soil. They've got the support of ProtoSpace, a specialized aerospace manufacturing provider hoping to support Canada's budding space industry.

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Climbing to 60° high in the east two hours before sunrise, the constellation Andromeda lies just to the upper right of the easy-to-spot W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. This morning, let’s enjoy a view of the star cluster NGC 7686 in northwestern Andromeda, about 3° northwest of 4th-magnitude Lambda (λ) Andromedae.  This bright group of stars shinesContinue reading "The Sky Today on Tuesday, July 8: Catch NGC 7686 in Andromeda"

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NGC 2685, often called the Helix Galaxy, is quite an unusual object. It is a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy that is also a polar ring galaxy, showing a ring of material at 90° orientation to its main axis, resulting from an interaction with a nearby galaxy. It is also a Seyfert Galaxy, its active nucleus powered byContinue reading "Deep-Sky Dreams: The Helix Galaxy   "

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Gilmour Space Technologies has officially announced that the earliest available launch window for its Eris rocket is no earlier than (NET) July 16. The launch was postponed on July 2 due to adverse weather conditions. The company confirmed the updated launch window on July 3, citing Australia’s regulatory requirement for a two-week notice to theContinue reading "Gilmour delays debut launch, Starlink flies into the week solo"

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Greg Meyer from Phoenix, Arizona Three objects fill this vista on the border of Cepheus and Cygnus: the Seahorse Nebula (Barnard 150) at left and the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6956) and open cluster NGC 6939 at right. The imager captured over 17 hours of exposure in LRGB filters with a 3.2-inch scope.

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In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out during the evening of July 7 and observe the pretty bright Moon passing Antares, also known as Alpha Scorpii. Look sharp, because the Moon’s light may hinder your view of the star, especially if your location has high clouds or smoke overhead. Good luck!

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How did a Cepheid variable star help Edwin Hubble prove the Andromeda Nebula was a galaxy?  Roger BradySan Quentin, California Cepheids are rare variable stars with periods ranging from about 1 to 120 days. Their light curve — a chart showing brightness over time — is characterized by rapid brightening followed by slow dimming inContinue reading "How did Edwin Hubble prove Andromeda was a galaxy?"

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Astronomers have spotted a rare cosmic duo: a neutron star that rotates nearly a hundred times every second locked in an ultra-tight orbit with a semi-shredded star. The scientists who found the pair say one of these stars swallowed the other whole and then spat it back out. It’s the first discovery of a millisecondContinue reading "‘Strange binary’: Astronomers discover a pulsar and a helium star orbiting each other"

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The U.S. military is suspending its efforts to secure a small Pacific island as the test landing site for a new program using rockets to rapidly deliver cargo anywhere on Earth.

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Brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars," could be corrupted by dark matter and transformed into "dark dwarfs" powered by the universe's strangest stuff.

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As James Gunn's Superman (2025) races into cinemas faster than a speeding bullet, we look at the planet that could have hosted his home world and why he might be older than he looks.

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How Species' lofty science-fiction ideas were consumed by its monster instincts.

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Using the ALMA telescope, astronomers have revealed the internal structure of the first galaxies in the universe, hinting at how our cosmos took shape.

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The spacecraft now almost tips upside down relative to Mars to give its radar the best view.

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On April 20th, NASA's Lucy was in the sky, not with diamonds, but with an asteroid.

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Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time finding it.

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July’s full 'Buck Moon' rises close to aphelion, making it the furthest full moon from the sun in 2025.

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In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space exploration may be closer than we think.

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How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here are all of your questions answered.

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Tissue samples sent to the International Space Station reveal what can happen to astronauts on long-term missions.

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A collection of more than 50 pieces of memorabilia previously owned by Sally Ride, the first American woman to reach space, sold at auction last week for more than $145,000.

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Surprising colors and stunning features are captured in a new image of Mars' surface.

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In the latest attack on science by the Trump administration, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center will no longer receive data from a fleet of military satellites.

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Sprites have been known to form above intense thunderstorms.

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Author(s): Qihang Liu

A new symmetry-breaking scenario provides a comprehensive description of magnetic behavior associated with the anomalous Hall effect.

[Physics 18, 127] Published Mon Jul 07, 2025

Author(s): Sachin Rawat

A structural phenomenon traditionally confined to inanimate systems has now been observed in biology.

[Physics 18, 128] Published Mon Jul 07, 2025

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

Evidence builds against the long-held notion that water ice can be truly glassy.

[Physics 18, s86] Published Mon Jul 07, 2025

A scene from Apple TV+'s "Invasion" Season 3

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Humans have used the stars to navigate, keep time, and understand our place in the universe.

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Titan Books' new novelization of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's 'Galactus Trilogy' heralds the coming of July’s 'Fantastic Four' blockbuster.

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The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base camp last week.

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The "Golden Handle" appears each month when the sun illuminates a mountain range lining a vast impact crater.

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The "One Big Beautiful Bill," now enacted, directs that space shuttle Discovery be removed from the Smithsonian and placed on display at Space Center Houston by January 2027.

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The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, will offer some fabulous travel options. Here are some adventures to consider.

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Mineral-rich layers of clay suggest that ancient life could be possible on the Red Planet

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It's another step on the road to one day discovering what dark matter could be.

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The Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews spent their first of two weeks together conducting science aboard the International Space Station.

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NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim and Anne McClain marked Independence Day with a few heartfelt words for their compatriots here on Earth.

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Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this transformation, they may vomit out more stellar material than we knew.

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With Superman on its way, we take a look at director James Gunn's incredible slate of sci-fi movies to date.

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Author(s): Michael Schirber

Infrared spectroscopy performed on high-pressure ice phases demonstrates a possible technique for studying ice on other planets or moons.

[Physics 18, s83] Published Wed Jul 02, 2025

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz

Seven metric tons of liquid xenon set some of the strictest constraints ever on dark matter candidates known as WIMPs.

[Physics 18, s82] Published Tue Jul 01, 2025

Author(s): Bo Zhao

A newly designed structure exhibits the largest-recorded emissivity–absorptivity difference, a property that could prove useful in energy-harvesting and cloaking devices.

[Physics 18, 123] Published Mon Jun 30, 2025

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A new data-analysis method allows researchers to visualize a superconductor expelling an applied magnetic field under high-pressure conditions.

[Physics 18, s88] Published Mon Jun 30, 2025

Spica is a binary star system that orbits over 250 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way.

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The International Space Station and China's Tiangong Space Station will be visible for early risers. Here's how to make a dual sighting.

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Both novas will eventually become too dim to see, even under the darkest skies. So catch them while you can!

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With the aid of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered an erupting cataclysmic variable star in a rarely seen evolutionary stage.

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The Zefiro-9 was hoisted in preparation for the Vega-C flight VV27.

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A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launched toward the International Space Station this afternoon (July 3), hauling several tons of cargo to the orbiting lab.

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These are our picks of the best space tech deals you can get ahead of Fourth of July and Amazon Prime Day with offers on telescopes, star projectors and more.

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3I/ATLAS is the third-ever interstellar object discovered.

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Earth is at its farthest point from the sun on July 3. So why are temperatures so high across the U.S.?

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The rocky world will be visible for a brief window after sunset.

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"…are we potentially the last generation that will see the night's sky in its entirety?"

© Josh Dury

The space telescope spied three young stars in the nebula.

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A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and potentially marking the birth of a new ocean, a new study reports.

© Dr Derek Keir, University of Southampton/ University of Florence

MethaneSAT, the first satellite made by an environmental nonprofit organization, was designed to monitor some of the world's largest industrial contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. Now, without power, the spacecraft's mission has abruptly ended.

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As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked up in rocks.

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Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own parent stars by being too clingy.

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Space.com sat down recently with retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts to talk about space, politics and his run in Texas for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

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Our Red Planet explorers may encounter a peculiar threat.

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SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit today (July 2), on the 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch in the company's history.

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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.

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Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing space-lovers with stunning eye-candy.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the MTG-S1 weather satellite for EUMETSAT today (July 1), then came back down to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

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Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how the Milky Way and other modern galaxies evolved.

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The phenomenon is created by the shifting play of light and shadow over the lunar surface.

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The Australian company Gilmour Space has delayed the launch of its Eris-1 rocket yet again, pushing back indefinitely from the previously planned July 2 date.

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American companies launched 21 commercial space missions in June 2025, which was a new record for a single month, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

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A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black holes or a cosmic particle accelerator.

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A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of physics.

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"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or long-distance transport in the early solar system."

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Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, this galaxy could reveal the secrets of cosmic evolution.

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NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose material that could hold clues to the planet's ancient environment and habitability.

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"Project Hail Mary" is the upcoming outer space odyssey, based on Andy Weir's 2021 novel, that offers a stirring story of alien first contact.

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As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as possible.

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Ahead of Amazon Prime Day on July 8-11, this limited-time deal gets you $600 off a Nikon Z6 II bundle with a 24-70mm lens included.

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"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, the origins of the building blocks of life themselves."

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Today is the last day you can get 60% off Disney Plus, which is the perfect pre-Prime Day streaming deal and in time for Fantastic Four's upcoming release.

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The satellites were seen in the night skies near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

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World Asteroid Day 2025: Watch live views of near-Earth asteroids for free online on June 30

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With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant that is cool, literally and figuratively.

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Ron Howard's classic celebrates the mission control geniuses who got the astronauts home.

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NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.

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Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.

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Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its 13th crewed New Shepard rocket on a successful suborbital spaceflight on Sunday, June 29, 2025.

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Muon Space released the first images from its new wildfire detection satellite, FireSat.

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The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In especially busy years, a supplemental list is used.

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Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life

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"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure the US does not cede leadership in deep space to other nations, such as China."

© NASA Langley Advanced Concepts Lab/Analytical Mechanics Associates

George Lucas had big plans for a live-action TV series before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 — so what happened?

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On Episode 167 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by AJ Gemer of Lunar Outpost, a fast-moving company innovating in cislunar technology.

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The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious

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The Axiom Mission-4 (Ax-4) crew flying aboard SpaceX's Dragon "Grace" docked to the International Space Station beginning a two-week stay on the orbiting laboratory with the Expedition 73 crew.

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The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket launched the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturday, June 28, 2025.

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Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our heads.

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Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets lifted off with Starlink satellites on June 28, 2025. The first launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida and the second from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California.

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Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

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One of the most overlooked sequels in Capcom's history, Lost Planet 2 walked so games like Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 could run.

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For some lucky viewers, the moon will pass directly in front of Mars.

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A solid rocket engine for NASA's Space Launch System rocket experienced an anomaly during a static fire test at the booster's Northrop Grumman facilities June 26.

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Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful telescopes. A fitting tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin.

© X-ray: NASA/CXO/UMass/Z. Li & Q.D. Wang, ESA/XMM-Newton; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE, Spitzer, NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (U. Az), ESA/Herschel, ESA/Planck, NASA/IRAS, NASA/COBE; Radio: NSF/GBT/WSRT/IRAM/C. Clark (STScI); Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GALEX; Optical: Andromeda, Unexpected © Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, Yann Sainty & J. Sahner, T. Kottary. Composite image processing: L. Frattare, K. Arcand, J.Major

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft carrying Axiom-4 astronauts heads to the International Space Station.

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The meteor shower radiant can be found in the constellation Bootes.

© Shawn Hew

The fireball was bright enough to be spotted by a lightning-tracking satellite from orbit.

© NOAA

The Mexican president said there is a "general review underway of the international laws that are being violated."

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For years, Robert Hunt convinced everyone he could that he was a NASA astronaut. The truth was anything but.

© Future/Susan Lapides

National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on Tuesday (June 24) with no direction yet for where to go.

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Superman is spearheading DC's big reboot in the realm of movies and TV, but what's coming next? And which projects are confined to elseworlds?

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Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the star-forming region of Ophiuchus.

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Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from New Zealand on June 26. The rocket carried a trio of radio frequency geolocation satellites and one experimental payload into a polar orbit.

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Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew are back and on the hunt for The Gorn. Here’s everything we know about 'Strange New Worlds' Season 3 after 2023’s cliffhanger finale.

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The remains of 166 people part of a Celestis Memorial Spaceflight are presumed lost after The Exploration Company's "Mission Possible" capsule presumably crashes into Pacific Ocean.

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The fireball was visible from several states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

© © Mark Kirschner

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geomagnetic storms with a high-speed solar wind.

© Aurora forecast map courtesy of NOAA SWPC. Graphic created in Canva Pro by Daisy Dobrijevic.

The nova appears to be dimming and may soon be undetectable by the unaided eye.

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A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest conditions on Earth in the form of lichen.

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The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dark matter.

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The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets out of the water, but handling that much information poses a severe challenge.

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"We are given rules by our own institutions about what we can and cannot say."

© Josh Dinner via Future

SpaceX launched a batch of 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

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After more than 24 hours on orbit, the the private astronaut crew of Axiom-4 has caught up to the International Space Station, docked and been welcomed aboard for their two-week mission.

© NASA

Our exclusive offer is top value for NordVPN ahead of Amazon Prime Day with up to 76% off, a free Amazon voucher and a bonus four months free.

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The four astronauts of the private Ax-4 mission to the ISS represent four different countries, so the food they're carrying up has a very international flavor.

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Humanity will soon take another step toward establishing an off-Earth economy, if all goes according to plan for the Florida-based shoe company Syntilay.

© Syntilay

With exactly a month to go until the release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the final trailer reveals more Galactus, more Franklin, but no Clobberin' Time... yet.

© Marvel Studios

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.

©  A.-M. Lagrange and al. - Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA7 disk, 2025

A mysterious and powerful blast of radio waves detected last year, suspected to originate far beyond the Milky Way came from a long-dead NASA spacecraft in Earth's orbit.

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The culprit was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Transporter-14 satellite rideshare mission.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captures the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

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The last Dragon spacecraft that SpaceX plans to build entered orbit for the first time with "grace." Reaching space on the new capsule, Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson revealed the spacecraft's name.

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June's new moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Ax-4 mission for Axiom Space today (June 25), sending four private astronauts on a two-week mission to the ISS.

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Miguel Claro captured the Orion Constellation glowing red due to hydrogen gas, as seen from the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Portugal.

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Japanese company ispace lost its Resilience lunar lander this month due to laser range finder errors, the company said.

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Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right."

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On June 26, you'll have an opportunity to behold the sight of a slender waxing crescent moon positioned just to the right of Mercury.

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The world's largest digital camera focuses on the Virgo Cluster, showing never-before-seen detail in our universe

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Short on time and looking to get ready for Metroid Prime 4 later this year? We've ranked all the Metroid games so you can focus on the must-plays.

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Auroras may be visible from Alaska to South Dakota as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere shakes up geomagnetic activity in the coming days.

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Author(s): Mark Buchanan

A researcher describes a pathway to unprecedented precision for measurements of the distance to the Moon using a continuous rather than a pulsed laser.

[Physics 18, 124] Published Fri Jun 27, 2025

Author(s): Marric Stephens

The efficiency of a quantum cryptography scheme can be improved by replacing conventional attenuated lasers with single-photon quantum-dot sources.

[Physics 18, 126] Published Fri Jun 27, 2025

Author(s): Bob Henderson

One hundred years after Heisenberg’s legendary retreat on Helgoland, physicists return to the island to celebrate the achievements of quantum mechanics and to debate its future.

[Physics 18, 125] Published Thu Jun 26, 2025

Author(s): Anne-Florence Bitbol

A biophysical model sheds light on how the subtle interplay of fluid dynamics and bacterial growth controls the fluctuating population of microbes in the human gut.

[Physics 18, 121] Published Wed Jun 25, 2025

Author(s): Marric Stephens

A theoretical model of a surface-wave instability matches observations of a muddy debris flow in an Alpine valley.

[Physics 18, s81] Published Tue Jun 24, 2025

Author(s): Robert-Jan Slager

Contrary to conventional wisdom, so-called order parameters that distinguish symmetry-governed phases of matter can have topological structure.

[Physics 18, 118] Published Mon Jun 23, 2025

Author(s): Matteo Rini

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images—a small preview of a decadal survey that will observe an unprecedented number of stars and galaxies, helping researchers tackle the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology.

[Physics 18, 122] Published Mon Jun 23, 2025

Author(s): Michael Schirber

In bringing attention to climate change, this year’s Show Your Stripes Day includes new stripe patterns depicting temperature changes in the ocean and atmosphere, as well as in future-climate scenarios.

[Physics 18, 119] Published Fri Jun 20, 2025

Author(s): Philip Ball

A concept based on an exotic effect in periodic structures may be useful for developing future photonic devices.

[Physics 18, 120] Published Fri Jun 20, 2025

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

An atom’s quantum state can be determined quickly and accurately thanks to a strategy for making the atom brighter.

[Physics 18, s77] Published Fri Jun 20, 2025

Author(s): Charles Day

A fine-grained database of Twitter posts gathered during the 2017 French presidential election validates a popular network model of opinion dynamics.

[Physics 18, s76] Published Tue Jun 17, 2025

Author(s): Michael Schirber

A study of cellular motion demonstrates a method for isolating individual cellular behavior from environmentally induced random motion.

[Physics 18, s84] Published Tue Jun 17, 2025

Author(s): Chris Rogers

Researchers have demonstrated the slowing and subsequent reacceleration of a muon beam, increasing the potential of muon beams as a research tool.

[Physics 18, 114] Published Mon Jun 16, 2025

Author(s): Michael Schirber

The memory of a story appears to have a tree-like structure, with abstract summaries branching out into more specific details.

[Physics 18, 117] Published Fri Jun 13, 2025

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson

Two studies elucidate key mechanisms limiting the efficiency and stability of organic light-emitting diodes.

[Physics 18, s74] Published Thu Jun 12, 2025

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace.

© NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.

'Elio' isn't the legendary animation studio's first adventure on the final frontier. Here's every Pixar movie and short that explores space.

© Disney / Pixar

Astronomers have taken an unprecedentedly detailed look at the tendrils and filaments that wrap around supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies of Abell 2255.

© E. De Rubeis (Università diBologna - INAF) et al. / A&A 2025

The Rubin Observatory will reveal its first images on Monday. Space.com spoke to scientists who explained why this will be a monumental event for astronomy.

© NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory/AURA/B. Quint

The Unistellar Father's Day sale ends in two days — grab the Odyssey Pro with $675 off

© Unistellar / Future

The giant explosion that destroyed a SpaceX Starship vehicle on the test stand this week was likely caused by the failure of a pressurized nitrogen tank, the company said.

© SpaceX

An ongoing leak aboard the International Space Station is once again delaying the launch of Axiom Space's next private astronaut mission.

© Space.com / Josh Dinner

Seen in "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" the Acclamator-Class Lego set comes packed with authentic detail, has 450 pieces, and is part of a collectible Star Wars series.

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Its name might be a bit of a mouthful, but this Lego Star Wars ship is wonderfully pocket-sized while still packing in a lot of detail.

© Kim Snaith

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.

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Researchers created a satellite tracking system to track satellite streaks across the Arctic for the first time ever.

© U.Western and Defence R&D Canada

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch six people to suborbital space today (June 21), and you can watch the action live.

© Blue Origin

The moon is a key step in the journey of space exploration, but making it habitable brings up lots of questions around space law and policy

© Photo by Bill Ingalls via Wikimedia Commons

Sunspot region 4114 has done it again! This time unleashing a colossal X1.9 solar flare.

© NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org

James Webb Space Telescope finds exoplanets in extreme environments that could potentially be habitable.

© NASA/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

Rocket Lab planned to launch a satellite for a confidential customer early Friday morning (June 20), but Mother Nature didn't cooperate.

© Rocket Lab

For centuries Mars has been called "the Red Planet" and there's a scientific reason why.

© NASA / JPL-Caltech / USGS

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored images that could reveal their dynamic evolution in real time.

© Event Horizon Telescope collaboration

The sun will reach its most northern point on June 20, marking the start of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere.

© Starry Night

This 4+ Lego set is colorful and fun, ideal for young Marvel fans looking for an early introduction to building Lego.

© Kim Snaith

NASA and the Department of Defense practice recovery procedures for an abort scenario in the upcoming Artemis 2 mission.

© NASA/Isaac Watson

Blue Origin's next suborbital flight is scheduled to launch on Saturday (June 21), carrying a private crew of six.

© Blue Origin

"These small galaxies punch well above their weight."

© NASA/ESA/CSA/Bezanson et al. 2024 and Wold et al. 2025

The monsterous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 isn't just the largest icy rock in the Oort Cloud, it's the second most distant that is chemically active.

© NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss