Trump’s nomination for NASA leader boasts business and commercial spaceflight experience during a period of uncertainty for the agency

Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman has worked closely with SpaceX. He expressed an interest in sending missions to both the Moon and Mars if confirmed.

Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University • conversation
April 10, 2025 ~9 min

Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here

Scientists will have to check whether the samples contain living microbes before they can be safely studied.

John Bridges, Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester • conversation
April 7, 2025 ~8 min


How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

Microbes could pump out oxygen on Mars.

Samuel McKee, Associate Tutor and PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science, Manchester Metropolitan University • conversation
April 1, 2025 ~7 min

Membrane could pave way for sails for space travel

Lightsails have the potential to reduce flight time to nearby stars from several thousand years to perhaps just a decade or two.

Brown University • futurity
March 31, 2025 ~7 min

Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where − and where not − to look for life in the universe

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

David Garofalo, Professor of Physics, Kennesaw State University • conversation
March 31, 2025 ~7 min

Model hints more Earth-like planets may exist

"If future observations confirm our predictions, it could completely change our understanding of how planets form..."

Alexandra Becker - Rice U. • futurity
March 27, 2025 ~7 min

Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 27, 2025 ~6 min

Results from global collaboration raise questions about future of universe

CfA astronomers play crucial role in DESI analysis of dark energy, matter

Harvard Gazette • harvard
March 26, 2025 ~4 min


Webb Telescope sees galaxy in mysteriously clearing fog of early Universe

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early Universe. The surprise finding is challenging researchers to explain how

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 26, 2025 ~5 min

Thousands of satellites are due to burn up in the atmosphere every year – damaging the ozone layer and changing the climate

The number of satellites is exploding, and we still don’t have a fully safe way to dispose of them.

Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton • conversation
March 20, 2025 ~7 min

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