SpaceX rocket launch creates ‘space jellyfish’ effect in Florida sky during Falcon 9 mission carrying 29 Starlink satellites

Early risers along Florida’s Space Coast were treated to something unusual on Wednesday morning. As the first light of dawn ...
New Scientist

Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Physicist Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challen ...

No chance asteroid will slam into the moon in 2032, NASA says

NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...
Scientific American

‘Conan the Bacterium’ could really conquer the solar system, new study suggests

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.
UNILAD

Harvard scientist places bet that 'discovery or disclosure' of aliens visiting Earth will happen in the next four years

Avi Loeb, who challenged scientists on the true origin of 3I/ATLAS, reckons alien life form will make contact with us soon ...