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Building the 'Moonhouse': Q&A with artist Mikael Genberg

Mikael Genberg discusses his "Moonhouse" project, which is about to land a tiny replica of the iconic red-and-white Swedish house on Earth's nearest neighbor.

A Terrifying Simulation of a Black Hole Gobbling Up a Neutron Stars

Before diving into their collision, it's worth understanding just how extreme these objects are. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape once it crosses the "event horizon." Black holes form when the most massive stars collapse at the end of their lives, creating a point of infinite density surrounded by this inescapable boundary.

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ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its ‘eye’ to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye telescope’s ‘first light’ marks the beginning of a new chapter in how we scan the skies for new near-Earth asteroids and comets.

Magnetic fields appear to be as old as the universe itself. What created them?

New research suggests that the largest magnetic fields in the universe originated through some exotic mechanism that absolutely soaked the early cosmos.

Is the Hubble Tension Starting to Go Away?

The Hubble Tension is perhaps, one of the most frustratingly unresolved mysteries in cosmology. Here's the problem: when astronomers measure how fast the universe is expanding today using nearby stars, they get one answer. When it's calculated from the afterglow of the Big Bang—the cosmic microwave background—there is a completely different number. The gap between these measurements has persisted for over a decade, surviving countless attempts to explain it away as experimental error. Either the instruments are systematically wrong, or something fundamental about the universe's evolution is missing from our models.

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SpaceX launches Starlink satellite stack from Vandenberg Space Force Base (photos)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base this evening (June 4), carrying 27 Starlink satellites for the company's growing wireless internet constellation.

Webb Watches Haze Rise and Fall in Pluto's Atmosphere

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active atmosphere on Pluto. Those snapshots redefined our understanding of the system. Now, new observations using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) taken in 2022 and 2023, show that Pluto's atmosphere is completely different from any other one in the Solar System. For one thing, it contains haze particles that rise and fall as they are heated and cooled.

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'Joy,' a plush baby swan, will launch with Axiom Mission-4 crew as zero-g indicator

When an international crew of astronauts launch on a commercial space mission, they will be joined by a स्वैन, a łabędź or a hattyú. Or, in English, a swan.

ispace's Resilience spacecraft lands on the moon this week: Here's how to see the landing zone on the lunar surface

The lander won't be visible from Earth, but its landing site on Mare Frigoris will be.

A tiny star gave birth to a giant exoplanet, but no one knows how

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

Mount Etna's terrifying eruption from orbit | Space photo of the day for June 4, 2025

A satellite from the European Space Agency captured huge plumes of ash and smoke from Europe's largest volcano.

How an odd star in the 'Gaia Sausage' could help solve one of astronomy's most enduring mysteries

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role of ancient dwarf galaxies in seeding the cosmos with uranium and thorium.

Astronomers Find a Hidden Planet Partly in the Habitable Zone of its Star

Astronomers have found another super-Earth. It's about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star 2475 light-years away. These massive Earth-like planets hold key information about how planets form and evolve.

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Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing on June 5

Tokyo-based ispace hopes to succeed where its 2023 mission fell short, with a new lander, new software and a new chance at lunar history.

Europe stages a moon landing to learn how to photograph the real thing (photos)

Built on a set in a specialist facility in Germany, a mockup of a lunar landscape is helping imaging experts learn how to take better images and video footage on the moon.

What Life on Europa Needs

As the years go by the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

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Tall ship brings ESA ocean science training to Nice

After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.

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Lunar landers and 'Transporter' tankers: Blue Origin unveils its blueprint for the moon

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has begun revealing how it plans to establish itself as a provider of hardware that will enable long-term human stays on the moon.

You can beat the Father's Day and Prime Day rush with one of the best VR headset deals available, perfect for entertainment and beginners

The HTC Vive Flow is now $200 off and the perfect VR headset deal for beginners and those seeking light entertainment ahead of Father's Day and Prime Day.

ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space

On 31 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by transmitting a live performance of The Blue Danube Waltz into space from its Cebreros deep space antenna in Spain. This symbolic gesture elevated Johann Strauss II’s famous waltz, often considered the unofficial ‘anthem of space’, to its rightful place among the stars.

A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4 innovates for clean air

From its vantage point outside Earth’s atmosphere, more than 36 000 km above Earth’s surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. It will observe how they vary on an hourly basis – a real breakthrough for air quality forecasting.


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