Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool red dwarf, located about 40 light-years away
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The final ESA/Webb Picture of the Month feature for 2025 showcases a festive-looking region filled with glowing clouds of gas and thousands of sparkling stars. This star cluster, known as
Trump signs sweeping executive order to assert U.S. dominance in space
WASHINGTON — The White House issued a sweeping executive order on space policy Dec. 18 covering topics from NASA’s exploration plans to space security. The order, “Ensuring American Space Superiority,”
What problem is charging for Space Situational Awareness supposed to solve?
A recently issued Executive Order revises how the government implements Space Policy Directive-3, removing the longstanding expectation that basic space situational awareness (SSA) services, including conjunction warnings, would be provided
Germany awards $1.9 billion SAR satellite deal to Rheinmetall-Iceye venture
WASHINGTON — A joint venture between Germany’s Rheinmetall and Finnish synthetic aperture radar satellite maker Iceye has secured its first major contract, agreeing to operate a space-based surveillance constellation for
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This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024, contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue), and optical
NASA may finally be on the cusp of regaining official leadership as the Senate votes on Trump’s (re)nominated pick for the head of the space agency today. Jared Isaacman, billionaire
For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and
Every so often, the moon draws closer to Earth and appears larger, brighter, and more powerful in the night sky. These rare events are called supermoons, and each one in
NASA Planetary Research — Grok via Astrobiology.com On December 10, 2025 at 1 PM Eastern, NASA’s Planetary Science Division (PSD) Planetary Research Programs will host a webinar to celebrate the
Variation in prokaryote phyla relative abundance as a function of lava rock age and separated by eruption. Less abundant phyla were concatenated under “Others” but can be found in detail
MILAN – When the European Space Agency announced its new three-year spending plan last month, two countries stood out for the increased size of their contributions. Poland boosted its budget
Heads up aurora chasers! The northern lights could put on a show across the U.S. tonight and tomorrow as a coronal mass ejection (CME) is forecast to hit Earth, according
From the prebiotic soup to the creation of biodiversity. The transition from a prebiotic soup to the emergence of the first living system—initiating the life process—is partially explained by the
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