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Scientists with the SETI Institute have completed a search for possible technological signals coming from 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. Using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at Northern California’s Hat Creek Radio Observatory, researchers examined a broad range of radio frequencies for evidence of extraterrestrial technology. As expected…
Land surface temperature data captured by Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Wednesday, June 23, 2026. The data were captured in the late morning, local time. (Image credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA) Over 1,300 deaths have been attributed to a heat wave that swept across Europe and broke temperature records earlier…
It’s unclear when Boeing will be able to send more astronauts to the International Space Station, a new NASA audit warns. Technical issues with Boeing Starliner’s spacecraft, across two uncrewed flights and a two-astronaut test mission known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), come under scrutiny in a new report about NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program from…
On 1st July, the UK Ministry of Defence released the Defence Investment Plan. Based on the 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the plan covers the directions envisioned for investment across major warfighting domains, including space. MoD writes that this document “is intended to demonstrate to Parliament and the public how increasing defenceinvestment is being spent.”…
What’s more, sunlight in summertime reaches the ground at an angle perpendicular to the surface — it comes straight at the ground. In winter, sunlight comes in at a sharper angle. This spreads the Sun’s light across a larger area, delivering less light — and therefore less warmth — per square meter. The differences in…
Orion and Gateway in Lunar Orbit. Credit: NASA Today, Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reset NASA’s Moon program. Sean Duffy announced today that he was re-opening NASA’s HLS contract. As a justification, Duffy stated that SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander was behind schedule and its delays put at risk NASA landing astronauts on the Moon by…
Terrae Novae is ESA’s exploration programme. Terrae Novae is not only literally about exploring new worlds, but by describing the limitless opportunities for discovery, economic growth and inspiration it also expresses our ambitions for Europe’s future innovators, scientists and explorers. This video shows the many exploration activities ESA is conducting or has planned in our…
Probably not, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In a new working paper, Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober, a former UCR graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, argue that conscious beings may be possible even if they are built from…
NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the orbital complex’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT. Experts from NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will preview the upcoming spacewalk during a news conference at 2…
Even relatively small asteroids can have surprisingly eventful histories. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently revealed that asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped object that has been shaped by collisions, sunlight, and even a brief encounter with liquid water long ago. The asteroid formed about 155 million years ago when fragments from a violent collision gradually came…