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In 2026, Kovi Rose traced a 1.3-hour radio pulse and matching X-ray flicker to ASKAP J1745-5051, a white-dwarf system so tight that the orbit itself appears to become the clock
JWST found a fully formed galactic bar where theory said one couldn't possibly exist yet — and it quietly rewrites how the universe's earliest giants stopped making stars
Blue Origin's New Glenn exploded on its Cape Canaveral pad on May 28 — and the costliest casualty may be the lunar timeline NASA had bet on it just two days earlier
In early June 2026, the X-59 is expected to cross Mach 1 at 43,000 feet, the first sharp proof point in NASA's fifty-year attempt to turn an overland sonic boom into a certifiable thump
The Raptor 3 was supposed to be the engine that finally ended Starship's reliability problem — instead, on its first flight, several of them quit less than 20 seconds into the boostback burn, dropping the booster into the Gulf and grounding the whole program for a federal mishap review
Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury
Much of what we know about the scale of the universe rests on a method worked out by a woman employed as a human computer at Harvard for a few cents an hour
There is a planet 63 light-years from Earth where the rain is made of molten glass, the winds blow at 7,000 kilometres per hour, the daytime temperature is over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the planet itself, viewed from space, is the same deep blue as Earth.
Drifting through the Milky Way may be billions — perhaps even trillions — of rogue planets: worlds with no sun of their own, some flung from the systems where they formed, now wandering the galaxy in darkness.
Supermassive black holes are pointing jets of plasma directly at Earth — and a population of them may have produced the highest-energy neutrino ever recorded
