‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

This Cotton Candy Planet Is So Weird Even James Webb Can’t See Inside

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

Under New Launch Regulations, Expect More Commercial Space Activity

Following a record fiscal year 2025 that saw the FAA license more than 200 commercial space operations, orbital activity is set to explode in 2026 under a new licensing framework. The regulator on ...
Space.com

A state of matter last seen just after the Big Bang may exist inside neutron stars — and scientists think they can prove it

Scientists call this state of matter a quark-gluon plasma. This state of matter existed during the first fraction of a second ...
AOL

PHOTOS: 'Space jellyfish forms' from SpaceX Starlink rocket launch

Did you see the "space jellyfish" in the sky this morning? SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink satellites aboard into space on Wednesday morning from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape ...
Florida Today

Uranus' auroras are strange. James Webb telescope reveals how they form

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to map Uranus's upper atmosphere in three dimensions. The planet's tilted rotation and offset magnetic field create complex auroras unlike those on ...
The Business Journals

Wright State tapped for U.S. Space Command academic engagement program

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Students and faculty at one of ...
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Wright State gains full membership in Space Command academic program

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Wright State University has been given a full membership for the U.S. Space Command’s Academic Engagement Enterprise. This is currently only available to a select group of ...
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Wright State earns membership for U.S. Space Force Command academic program

FAIRBORN — Wright State University has earned full membership in the U.S. Space Command’s Academic Engagement Enterprise, becoming the third Ohio institution and the 89th across the country to earn ...
Interesting Engineering

Radioactive space can host building blocks of life, asteroid Bennu samples reveal

A new study offers a look at how the building blocks of life might have originated in the cosmos. Penn State scientists suggest that the amino acids found on the asteroid Bennu did not require warm, ...
DeSmog

Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’

Author Adam Becker’s book, More, Everything, Forever, exposes how tech billionaires’ sci-fi inspired fantasies about ever-more technology making everything, endlessly, better are “wildly implausible.” ...
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Wrong state name highlights problems on tax forms received by state workers

(WJAR) — Rhode Island’s beleaguered new payroll system for state employees is now mired in another problem, as workers received W-2 tax forms that have mistakes on them, including the wrong name of ...