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Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2026 After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month later, a rival rocket company, Blue Origin, flew its almost-as-large New Glenn rocket all the way to orbit and sent spacecraft on their way to Mars. While these successful flights are exciting news for future missions to the Moon as well as other planets, I've argued for several years that these s ... read more |
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Early universe dark matter born red hot before coolingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universite Paris-Saclay report that dark matter in the early universe may have started out moving at nearly the speed of light, challenging ... more 
Jet from galaxy black hole drives vast stream of super heated gas into spaceIrvine, United States (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 University of California Irvine astronomers have reported the discovery of the largest known stream of super heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby spiral galaxy called VV 340a. The team ... more 
Jets from black hole drive record coronal gas stream in nearby galaxyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby disk galaxy called VV 340a, with their findin ... more 
Milky Way stars mapped as major source of ghost particle flux at EarthBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Neutrinos, often called ghost particles, are elementary particles that are electrically neutral, extremely light, and interact only rarely with other matter. Trillions pass through Earth and the hum ... more |
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Hubble confirms dark starless relic cloud near galaxy M94Paris, France (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 A team using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified a new type of astronomical object, a starless gas-rich dark-matter cloud considered a relic of early galaxy formation and nicknamed "Cloud-9 ... more 
Fly through Webbs cosmic vistas celebrates four years of James Webb discoveriesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 30, 2025 On the fourth launch anniversary of the NASA ESA CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the European Space Agency has released a 43 minute fly through video built from many of Webbs best known images, pres ... more 
CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 December 16, 2025 - Southwest Research Institute's Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has begun r ... more 
Starlight falls short in giant star wind powerGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Dec 24, 2025 Astronomers report that starlight acting on stardust around the red giant star R Doradus cannot by itself power the strong stellar winds that spread key elements for life across the galaxy. Fo ... more 
Europa Clipper spectrograph tracks interstellar comet 3I ATLASLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has obtained a key dataset on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July became the th ... more |
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Possible "superkilonova" exploded not once but twice
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion - the kilonova - occurs when a pair of dense dead stars, called neutron stars, smash together, forging even heavier elements such as gold and uranium. Such heavy elements are among the basic building blocks of stars and planets. So far, only one kilonova has been unambiguously confirmed to date, a ... read more 
Carruthers observatory returns first ultraviolet views of Earth and MoonLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, providing ultraviolet views of Earth and the Moon and confirming that the spacecraft and its instruments are operati ... more |
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ALMA completes band two receiver chain with low noise amplifiersBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities used to probe cold and distant regions of the universe. Researcher ... more 
Gemini North tracks changing glow of interstellar Comet 3IATLASTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 Gemini North has obtained new color images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after the interstellar object emerged from behind the Sun on its outbound trajectory from the Solar System. Using the Gemini Multi-Object ... more 
Supernova at edge of observable universe spotted by James Webb Space TelescopeBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 An international collaboration of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect a supernova at an unprecedented distance in the early universe, tied to a long-duration gamma-r ... more 
Roman infrared survey to chart hidden structure of Milky WayGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations sp ... more 
Shaping quantum light expands options for future technologiesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers from the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, working with collaborators at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, report that controlling the structure of photons i ... more |
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