Researchers found a four-carbon sugar called erythrulose in a cloud of gas and dust at the center of the Milky Way (Spitzer Space Telescope image shown here).Credit: NASA, Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech) Call it an extra sweet discovery. Astronomers have detected a sugar molecule swirling within a cloud of gas and dust near the
Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded scathing posts on social media over the weekend, drawing new attention to the gap between vision and reality in the space computing business. In response to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said: “dude, you’re the one selling [sic] public market investors in near-term space data centers.”
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The Chinese National The Space Administration’s Tianwen-2 asteroid probe successfully reached the asteroid Kamo’oalewa, which orbits the Sun on a trajectory nearly identical to Earth’s. After undergoing multiple orbital adjustments in deep space, it detected Kamo’oalewa for the first time on June 6, 2026. On July 2, it successfully captured the first images of Kamo’oalewa
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the Expedition 74 crew to advance scientific research. Menon, Dubrov and Kikina will lift off at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. Baikonur
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101-6101, a pulsar located within what is often known as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight into the structure of some of the most extreme objects in the cosmos, as NASA continues