The idea of harvesting solar power in space and beaming it down to Earth — something that could be described as a “Starlink for electricity” — might sound ambitious, maybe even a bit utopian. But that hasn’t stopped Baiju Bhatt from betting on it. Bhatt, the billionaire and co-founder of the financial app Robinhood, has […]
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 is making headlines again, but there’s still no reason to panic—at least for Earth. The asteroid remains no threat to our planet, with collision odds stuck at a minuscule 0.001 percent. However, the Moon might not be as lucky. According to a study led by planetary astronomer Andrew Rivkin of Johns Hopkins
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Continental Europe’s initial attempt at an orbital space launch came to an unexpected end when Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket returned to Earth with a bang just 30 seconds after takeoff. The rocket crashed and exploded in the Norwegian Sea near the launch pad. Details of the Inaugural Flight from Andøya Spaceport The inaugural flight of
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The James Webb Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of galaxy formation. Alongside these discoveries, it has also unveiled a few unexpected phenomena—among them, the appearance of small, highly redshifted objects known as “little red dots” (LRDs). While their exact nature remains uncertain, a new study offers a compelling explanation.
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Our Solar System moves through the Milky Way at about 200 km/s, following a complex orbit around the galaxy’s center. Along its journey, it has encountered different cosmic environments, some of which may have influenced Earth’s climate. New research suggests that around 14 million years ago, the Solar System passed through the Orion star-forming complex—a
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A private U.S. lander has captured striking high-definition images of a lunar sunset, offering NASA a new opportunity to investigate the mysterious haze first observed on the Moon in the 1960s. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, which released the images on Tuesday, recently became the first private company to land a robotic spacecraft upright on the Moon.
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Since its first synthesis in a post-WWII American lab in 1949, berkelium has stood out on the periodic table, defying quantum mechanics by adopting an extra positive charge that its relatives typically avoid. Now, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—berkelium’s birthplace—have successfully bonded this elusive element with carbon, creating a rare organometallic complex. This breakthrough
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SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, paving the way for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to finally return home after more than nine months in space. The Crew-10 mission, which launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday evening, reached the ISS approximately 29 hours later.
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Mars’ surface rocks have been quietly preserving secrets about the planet’s past. The unusual mineral composition of pale rocks in Jezero Crater indicates they formed under extremely warm and wet conditions, challenging previous assumptions about Mars’ history. “On Earth, these minerals develop in regions with heavy rainfall and warm climates or in hydrothermal environments like
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Long before stars illuminated the cosmos, the Universe existed in a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. Only when these gases clumped together under immense pressure did the first stars ignite, forging heavier elements in their fiery cores. While scientists have long theorized about these early stars—known as Population III stars—no one has ever seen
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