SpaceX to launch 22 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida this evening (www.space.com)
Liftoff is scheduled for 6:39 p.m. ET tonight (Sept. 29).
First evidence of spinning black hole detected by scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Region at centre of Messier 87 galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in motion
Chinese Astronauts May Build a Base Inside a Lunar Lava Tube (www.universetoday.com)
China is the latest nation to study lunar lava tubes as locations for bases. They provide natural protection that's impossible to ignore.
Forget Alien Megastructures. New Study Says We Need to Look For 'Service Worlds'. (www.sciencealert.com)
In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.
‘Fossilized’ Bubble 10,000 Times the Size of the Milky Way Could Be a Relic from the Big Bang (www.scientificamerican.com)
Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup
James Webb Space Telescope's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet (phys.org)
In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star.
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft (phys.org)
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to Apophis (www.space.com)
OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.
NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa (www.nasa.gov)
Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Jupiters moon Europa.
Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Has Reached One Full Year in Space (scitechdaily.com)
Expedition 69 crew members on the ISS marked a busy week with cleaning, maintenance, and experiments. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin celebrated a year in space, while others contributed to diverse tasks and scientific investigations.
Next stop, Europa? Nano subs to get test beneath Antarctic ice in 2026 (www.space.com)
The German project aims to explore beneath Earthly ice as a test for space exploration.
DARPA wants new ideas for space weapons (www.space.com)
The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.
A Spectacular Rare Green Comet Lighting Up the Sky? An Expert on What To Expect From Nishimura (scitechdaily.com)
Of all the objects in the Solar System, perhaps the most spectacular are the great comets that occasionally grace our skies. If you’ve been on social media in the past few days, you’ve probably seen articles proclaiming we have such a comet in our skies right now: C/2023 P1 (Nishimura).
Heart of the 'Squid Galaxy' reveals how supermassive black holes dictate galactic chemistry (www.space.com)
Scientists studied the Squid Galaxy, Messier 77, to determine how chemicals swirl around its shrouded central black hole.
NASA hopes humanoid robots can help us explore the moon and Mars (www.space.com)
NASA is eyeing a privately built 'Apollo' space robot for continued investment — and future space missions.
Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter team up to tackle 65-year-old sun mystery (www.space.com)
The sun’s outer atmosphere is vastly hotter than its surface. Scientists may be close to figuring out why.
Hunting for Life Beyond Earth: Coronagraphs, Starshades, and Alien Biosignatures (scitechdaily.com)
Planning is underway for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory In early August, scientists and engineers gathered in a small auditorium at Caltech to discuss how to build the first space telescope capable of detecting life on planets like Earth. The proposed mission concept, called the Habitable Worl
Why is Neptune's moon Triton so weird? (www.space.com)
Triton orbits to the beat of its own drum.
Mysterious Dark Matter Mapped Across Space Like Never Before (www.sciencealert.com)
The curvature of space-time around a colossal mass has yielded the most detailed measurement of the cosmic distribution of dark matter yet.
Stunning Discoveries: Polar Ring Galaxies Not So Rare After All? (scitechdaily.com)
Queen’s researchers lead the discovery of two potential polar ring galaxies. A group of international astronomers, including researchers from Queen’s University, has identified two potential polar ring galaxies, according to results published on September 13 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal As
Universe Defies Einstein’s Predictions: Cosmic Structure Growth Mysteriously Suppressed (scitechdaily.com)
Scientists have discovered that cosmic structures grow slower than Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts, with dark energy playing a more dominant inhibitory role than previously thought. This finding may reshape our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and fundamental cosmic theori
Asteroid Apophis will visit Earth in 2029. Why do scientists want NASA to send a probe there first? (www.space.com)
NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group wants the agency to send spacecraft to visit the asteroid Apophis before it makes a close approach to Earth in 2029.
New survey outlines what NASA must do over the next 10 years to help astronauts thrive beyond Earth (www.space.com)
The decadal survey has highlighted such investigations as the effects of space on biology as being key to NASA's next 10 years and to the Artemis mission.
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Snaps First Images of Asteroid Dinkinesh on Its 12-Year Voyage of Discovery (scitechdaily.com)
NASA's Lucy spacecraft provides its first glimpse of asteroid Dinkinesh. Over a span of two months, Lucy will get closer, testing its systems before a close flyby on November 1, 2023. The small dot moving against the background of stars is the first view from NASA’s Lucy spacecraft of the main be
Webb discovers methane and carbon dioxide in atmosphere of K2-18 b (www.esa.int)
A new investigation by an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, has revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide. The discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that K2-18 b...
