Climate Change, characterized by rising temperatures, sea levels, and ocean acidity, poses an existential risk to countless species around the globe. For species like the Antarctic Adélie penguin, disappearing sea ice and rising
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet in the Beta Pictoris (β Pic) system. β Pic is about 63 light years away, and is notable for being the first star to have its circumstellar
(This is Part 2 of a series on what it’s like to travel near the speed of light. Read Part 1 first.) Let’s start with perspective. It’s strange enough on its own, but
SpaceX experienced a last-second abort during the launch attempt of Starship Flight 13 on July 16, 2026. On-screen telemetry data showed four engines on the Super Heavy booster didn’t ignite as planned, which
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base to send 21 satellites from York Space Systems to orbit on behalf of the Space
Imagine you were traveling at the speed of light, racing alongside a single photon, the fastest possible thing in the universe. What would you see? What would the universe look like to you?
Peak star formation took place during the Cosmic Noon between two to three billion years after the Big Bang. The star formation rate (SFR) back then was up to 100 times greater than
What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometres from Earth? For China’s Tianwen-2 mission, the answer was a four hundred day chase covering roughly
A team of Chinese astronomers using the Very Large Array (NSF VLA) recently detected a rare transient event taking place in a dwarf galaxy 3.4 billion light-years from Earth. The event, known as
How do you check the universe’s age without a birth certificate? One clever answer is to find its oldest surviving residents and see how old they’ve had time to become. A team led
