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Did Claude Help an Amateur Astronomer Find a New Planet?
A star 116 light-years away dims by a hair every 3.18 days. Pavel Rabtsevich, a 28-year-old product manager in Spain with no astronomy training and no telescope, says…
NASA’s Webb spots signs of Mars-sized worlds smashing together
Only about 1% of young stars show any sign of the violent phase astronomers call an extreme debris disk. Theory says that number should be higher. A new…
Rocket Lab is furious about NASA’s $700 million Mars orbiter pick
NASA just handed Blue Origin a $700 million contract to build, launch and operate a communications spacecraft at Mars. On Friday, the company that lost filed a protest…
Have we found alien life? We asked hundreds of scientists
Only 6.6% of astrobiologists surveyed after the K2-18b announcement agreed that scientists had probably found extraterrestrial life. Nearly two-thirds disagreed outright. That gap between the headlines and the…
NASA delays Crew-13 launch after finding a leak on SpaceX’s Dragon
An oxidizer leak in the propulsion system of the Crew-13 Dragon spacecraft has pushed NASA and SpaceX off their planned launch date to the International Space Station, and…
NASA’s Roman telescope is off to hunt the universe’s darkest secrets
Seven minutes. That’s how long it took after liftoff for controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to start pulling telemetry off the Nancy Grace…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is sealed up and ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds
On Aug. 21, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope disappeared from view. Teams at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida closed a 43-foot…
NASA finally photographed the crater a SpaceX Falcon 9 punched into the Moon
A rocket stage that left Earth in January 2025 hit the Moon on Aug. 5, and it took NASA six days of orbital patience to get a clean…
NASA scraps the mission to save its falling Swift observatory
The rescue is off. NASA has pulled the plug on the part of the mission that mattered most: nobody is pushing the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory back up…

