Astronomers declare rare dark-sky victory over scrapped energy project in Chile
After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert
SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data center
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence
Why does time flow at all? Physicists struggle to find an answer
The puzzle of time remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of physics
U.S. quietly declassifies cold war–era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellites
The National Reconnaissance Office has now declassified a satellite program used to spy on America’s adversaries
Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough
The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory
NASA stresses ISS crew safety as it gears up for next astronaut launch
After evacuating four astronauts from the ISS last month, NASA is looking ahead to its next crewed mission to the space station
3,000-light-year-long jet offers new clues to first black hole ever imaged
Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87*
Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out
An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again
Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time
After all these years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still awesome
The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors
Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly mulling a merger with xAI
SpaceX and xAI could join forces ahead of Elon Musk’s plan to take the former public later this year, according to Reuters
The chemical genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett
The story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world but whose legacy was long eclipsed by the famous scientist she worked with at the General Electric Company