SPACE

SpaceX is pushing ahead with its Starship program despite past test failures. Elon Musk recently revealed that the company plans to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars as early as 2026. These missions will carry Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots, with the main goal of testing critical technologies, including in-space refueling. Musk estimates the chances of […

Chinese scientists from the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) have conducted a groundbreaking experiment: they directed a high-precision laser beam from Earth to the Tiandu-1 navigation satellite, which orbits the Moon at a distance of 130,000 kilometers. A major challenge was the sunlight reflected from the Moon’s surface, which typically interferes with laser pulses and […

Researchers from the UK, Germany, and Israel have proposed a bold hypothesis suggesting that gravitational waves played a key role in shaping the conditions necessary for life—and even human consciousness—on Earth. According to their theory, fluctuations in gravitational fields triggered by collisions between black holes and neutron stars may set off

NASA scientists have detected a mysterious object that absorbs all light and emits no heat—an anomaly first spotted on April 18, 2025, using the James Webb Space Telescope. At first, researchers thought it was a data error, as there was a complete absence of infrared response in a region where a star’s signal was expected. […]

Scientists from Nagoya University, Tohoku University, and other institutions have uncovered the origin of a rare mineral texture known as “striped olivine,” found in the chondrules of meteorites. These tiny spherical particles are considered time capsules, preserving the conditions of the early solar system. The study revealed that the characteristic

NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured the Martian night sky, highlighting Deimos—one of the planet’s two small moons. The image, taken with the rover’s left navigation camera, is a composite of 16 individual frames, each with a 3.28-second exposure, resulting in a total exposure time of about 52 seconds. The photo was transmitted to Earth directly […