Space

Featured image: Simulation of two black holes merging, showing gravitational wave emission near the event horizon; credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss For the first time, astronomers have detected a new type of gravitational wave signal that carries direct imprints of a black hole’s event horizon, potentially opening a window onto the most extreme physics in the universe. The […]

Featured image: Illustration of the expanded Tiangong space station in cross configuration; credit: CMSA China has formally announced plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station, expanding from three to six modules and adding a co-orbiting Hubble-class telescope, positioning the facility to become the world’s largest permanent outpost in low-Earth orbit as the […]

China Plans to Double Tiangong Space Station to Six Modules as ISS Era Winds Down Clark – 1ban.news Date: 2026-06-27 Featured image: Illustration of the expanded Tiangong space station in cross configuration; credit: CMSA China has formally announced plans to double the size of its Tiangong space station, expanding from three to six modules and […]

SpaceX Eyes Direct-to-Consumer Starlink Mobile Service, Posing Challenge to US Telecom Giants Clark – 1ban.news Date: 2026-06-27 Featured image: Starlink Direct-to-Cell satellite illustration; credit: SpaceX SpaceX has signaled its intention to launch a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the United States, a move that would upend the country’s multibillion-dollar telecommunications market and potentially reshape how […]

Gravitational Wave ‘Direct Waves’ May Finally Reveal What Happens at a Black Hole’s Edge Clark – 1ban.news Date: 2026-06-27 Featured image: Simulation of two black holes merging, showing gravitational wave emission near the event horizon; credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss For the first time, astronomers have detected a new type of gravitational wave signal that carries direct imprints […]

[Artist’s impression of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey telescope searching the night sky; credit: Caltech/Palomar Observatory] A team of researchers has published a rigorous critical evaluation of recent studies that claimed to have found evidence of artificial objects — so-called technosignatures — in photographic plates from the first-epoch Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS1-E). The new […]

!NASA astronaut Chris Williams tries on his spacesuit inside the Quest airlock, assisted by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, ahead of a spacewalk to repair the Canadarm2 wrist joint. Credit: NASA Houston, TX — Two NASA astronauts are preparing for a spacewalk on June 30 to replace a malfunctioning wrist joint on the International Space Station’s […]

Astronomers have uncovered compelling chemical evidence that a star some 1,300 light-years from Earth consumed one of its own planets, offering a fresh window into the violent late-stage dynamics of planetary systems. A team of 14 researchers from the United States and Chile detected an unmistakable lithium excess in the outer layers of TOI-5882, a […]

Boulder, Colorado — Weather Stream, a commercial weather satellite operator based in Boulder, Colorado, has released first light imagery from its GEMS2-Amethyst satellite, marking a significant step forward for private-sector atmospheric monitoring from space. The GEMS2-Amethyst spacecraft, a six-unit cubesat equipped with a dual-band passive microwave radiometer, returned its initial atmospheric observations after reaching operational […]

For decades, astrophysicists believed the universe’s first stars were cosmic giants: massive, uniformly enormous objects hundreds of times heavier than the Sun, born in calm, quiescent environments. New research published in The Astrophysical Journal turns that picture upside down. The first stars — known as Population III stars — were shaped by violent supersonic turbulence […]