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SpaceX's Starship lifting off from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on August 26, 2025.

10th time lucky! SpaceX's Starship nails successful test flight after string of explosive setbacks

By Ben Turner published

SpaceX's Starship rocket has finally reversed its fortunes.

Space
A planet with red patches and cream patches against a dark background.

New Pluto mission could uncover dwarf planet's hidden ocean — if the 'queen of the underworld' gets to fly

By Nola Taylor Tillman Partner Content Created With Space. published

A conceptual mission known as "Persephone" could explore Pluto and its moons for 50 years  — if it ever gets funded and approved.

A series of red bubble looking spheres over a dark, starry background with four white cutout squares in the front enlarging four of the bubbles to show glowing balls of red light in each of the bubbles.

James Webb Space Telescope uncovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects. Are they galaxies or something else?

By Samantha Mathewson Partner Content Created With Space. published

Deep-field images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed 300 unusually energetic early galaxy candidates, offering new insights into how the universe formed and evolved over 13 billion years ago.

An illustration of a black hole represented by a sphere with swirls of purple and brown light around it representing its accretion disk as it sits in the darkness of space

X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the 'heartbeat black hole'

By Samantha Mathewson Partner Content Created With Space. published

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope has detected unexpected X-ray polarization from the "heartbeat black hole," formally known as IGR J17091-3624.

The sun

IBM and NASA create first-of-its-kind AI that can accurately predict violent solar flares

By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published

The new open-source AI model, Surya, is trained on nine years of satellite imagery data and can accurately predict the sun's activity up to two hours into the future. It's 16% more effective than any other tool currently available.

Artificial Intelligence

NASA aiming to build nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030

By Mike Wall Partner Content Created With Space. published

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon, aiming to establish such a power outpost by 2030, according to Politico.

NASA's Hubble telescope reveals most detailed photos of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS to date

By Pandora Dewan published

New images from the Hubble telescope show an extrasolar entity as it hurtles through our solar system at speeds of more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h).

Comets

NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars

By Sascha Pare published

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece of coral.

Mars
Nine new images created by its Chandra X-ray Observatory, with help from Hubble and JWST.

NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week

By Jamie Carter published

Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.

Space

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication

By Kristina Killgrove published

A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

Microbiology
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