Space

(This is Part 4 of a series on whether the universe can be cyclic. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 first.) So we left off with a beautiful idea. A...

Applications 09/06/2026 367 views 7 likesFor decades, economic growth and fossil-fuel consumption have been tightly intertwined. As cities have expanded, rising prosperity has often been accompanied by worsening air pollution. New research, however, suggests that this relationship is changing –...

What started off as a sci-fi horror turned into one of the best sci-fi comedies ever when it dropped 25 years ago. Being true to its title, Ivan Reitman's "Evolution" proves that nothing ever stays the same – including...

NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, which challenges students to bridge gaps in aerospace technology by innovating new system concepts and prototypes.  Another team from the same university won second place overall for their project, Mars...

We don't know if the theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early Universe when physics were much different. They had no stellar...

Applications 04/06/2026 697 views 13 likesA foundation model trained on Earth observation data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 has been made widely available to researchers, it was announced at a computer industry conference this week in Denver, US. Tessera, an advanced...

New research suggests that black holes born during the Big Bang could live much longer than previously estimated. In fact, these tiny primordial black holes may live long enough to become energy-spewing white holes with the mass of a...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the...

ESA/Sophie AdenotAstronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola, monitoring the automated approach and docking of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to...