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On Friday night, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, marking another milestone in the company's busy launch schedule. The mission, designated NROL-186,...

The blurry orange image of the monster black hole the size of our solar system at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87 captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)...

In the art world, “pentimento,” an alteration, an overlay on a painting, hides evidence of traces of a previous work. In a similar vein, British physicist Sir Roger Penrose argues...

SpaceX has secured $733.5 million in contracts from the U.S. Space Force for eight national security launches. These contracts, awarded as part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its second Vulcan Centaur rocket on October 4, 2024, marking a major step toward certifying the rocket for future national security missions. Despite a…

Rocket Lab successfully launched its 53rd Electron mission on September 20, 2024, deploying five satellites for French IoT company Kinéis. This mission is part of a larger plan to establish…

An amateur astronomer, Felix Schöfbänker, has captured rare images of classified US spy satellites, including FIA-Radars and KH-11 optical satellites, revealing details about their structure and behavior. His observations offer…

A groundbreaking diet program in the UK has shown promising results in helping patients with type 2 diabetes achieve remission. The program, which involves a strict diet of soups and...

In a significant milestone for national security and space exploration, SpaceX has successfully launched the NROL-146 mission, deploying a new generation of spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)....

The United States has accused Russia of launching a satellite that may be capable of attacking other satellites, raising significant concerns over the potential militarization of space. This incident highlights...

Early Wednesday morning, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking another significant milestone for the company. The launch, set for 1:00 a.m....

Posted on Nov 22, 2022 in Alien Life, Artificial Intelligence, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Consciousness, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Milky...

Posted on Nov 17, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include the Great Filter means we could die...

Posted on Sep 19, 2022 in Science Today’s stories include The Enduring Mystery: How Big is the Universe? to the Planets that the Webb Space Telescope has Observed So Far...

Posted on Aug 26, 2022 in Planet Earth, Science, Science News Today’s stories include Quantum Theory of Consciousness Challenged to Is Life on Earth the ‘Standard Model’ for the Universe...

Today’s stories include Scientists are Unraveling the Mystery of Time to Gladiators were the Superstars of the Roman Empire to Scientists Discover ‘Uncontaminated Extraterrestrial Materials’ in an Ancient Asteroid Sample,...

Posted on Jul 14, 2022 in Planet Earth, Science, Science News Today’s stories range from  to is the Metaverse Science Fiction or Reality to Seven Spectacular Lessons from Webb’s First...

A gravitational wave isn’t a ripple through objects in spacetime; it passes through spacetime itself. Gravitational waves make the Universe itself vibrate, says Brian Clegg, author of Gravitational Waves: How...

Posted on Sep 29, 2021 in Astrophysics, Physics, Science The following is an excerpt from Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, Brian Keating’s newest book based on his interviews with...

Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Brian Keating, Jonas Mureika and  Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) “Eliminating the singularity or Big Bang– which has its origins...

“It is possible that there’s a zoo of different compact objects, and while some of them are the black holes that follow Einstein and Hawking’s laws, others may be slightly...

Posted on Apr 22, 2021 in Science “With the wake we have a brand new testing ground for theories of dark matter,” wrote Harvard astrophysicist Rohan Naidu in an email...

Posted on Mar 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Science The  massive now-iconic object at the center of the M87 was described by scientists on April 10, 2019 as...

Welcome to this week’s fix of news of space and science –a random journey from Planet Earth through the Cosmos– that has the capacity to provide clues to our existence...

(For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through New Year’s Day. we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) “If space is truly infinite,” observes Dan Hooper, head...

“Ancient black holes would give us access to physics we would never otherwise be able to do,” wrote Dan Hooper, head of the theoretical astrophysics group at Fermilab, in an...

Posted on Nov 17, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

Posted on Nov 16, 2020 in Astrophysics, Biology, Cosmos, Science, Universe “If you look at the entire physical cosmos, our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they’re...

“I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes,” says theoretical physicist, Michio Kaku,“ underscoring the intriguing debate over the past decade among some the planet’s leading cosmologists and physicists,...

Black holes are “a one-way door out of our universe,” said Event Horizon Telescope director and astronomer Sheperd S. Doeleman of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics about discoveries of...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

“If space is truly infinite,” observes Dan Hooper, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in At the Edge of Time, “the implications are staggering....

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

Posted on Mar 14, 2020 in Cosmology, Most Viewed, Physics, Science The physical universe that we live in is only our perception and once our physical bodies die, there is...

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 in Climate Change, News, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet...

Posted on Dec 30, 2019 in Cosmos, Science Is the universe destined to collapse, ending in a big crunch or to expand indefinitely until it homogenizes in a heat death?...

“What we’ve made lets us dig ten times deeper than what we’ve been able to do before, helping us to see hundreds of millions of years into the past,” says...

Posted on Oct 15, 2019 in Biology, Evolution, Science The great British physicist, Sir Roger Penrose, has famously said that the human brain is more complex than the Milky Way...

Posted on Aug 7, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “What we believe we are seeing is a rare but important step in the life of these galactic beasts during galaxy...

Today’s insights and commentary from the world’s leading scientist’s on Twitter and YouTube postings on astronomy, physics, biology, evolution, SETI, cosmology, genetics, and climate change. Life in the Universe—Harvard’s Avi...

Posted on Jul 5, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmos, Physics, Science, Universe The renowned mathematical physicist, Sir Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and researchers at the Max Planck Institute...

Posted on Jul 26, 2019 in Admin, Astronomy, Physics, Science, Space “We’re so excited, and have been preparing for years to make these measurements,” said Andrea Ghez, who directs the...

Several mind-boggling conjectures about the existence of advanced alien civilizations have been made by astrophysicists who have found that for the last 7 billion years or so something is pushing...

Posted on Mar 28, 2019 in Science “We hope to next find out how common these galaxies are and whether they exist in other areas of the universe,” said astronomer...

Two mind-boggling conjectures about the existence of advanced alien civilizations have been made by Harvard’s chief astronomer and the director of Columbia University’s Astrobiology Center. Astrophysicist Caleb Scharf at Columbia...

Posted on Mar 20, 2019 in NASA, News, Science “We first landed on Jezero Crater on Jan. 23rd,” said Heather Bottom, systems engineer for the Mars 2020 mission at the...

Posted on Feb 8, 2019 in Evolution, Science “These chimpanzee organoids give us an otherwise inaccessible window to six million years of our evolution. They let us ask new questions...

Posted on Feb 10, 2019 in Astronomy, Evolution, NASA, Science “The mystery of why we haven’t yet found signs of aliens may have less to do with the likelihood of...

The first “theory” of the dark cosmos was embodied in the Greek god of darkness, Erebus, one of the primordial deities born out of Chaos, the primeval void, foreshadowing the...

Posted on Jan 20, 2019 The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to the day’s news on the science, technology, discoveries, and events changing our planet and the future of the...