Space
All Futurismo stories about space. (17)
An algorithm uncovers a hidden planet in JWST data
FLIP boosts sensitivity up to 15 times by removing star glare and recovers 51 Eridani b.
Mars is not dead: a giant volcano is still exhaling gas
The Trace Gas Orbiter detects hydrogen chloride over Alba Mons, a sign of ongoing igneous processes.
The five letters of the genetic code were on asteroid Ryugu
Samples brought back by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission contain all five bases of DNA and RNA.
A hidden star is plowing through Betelgeuse's atmosphere
Radio telescopes detect that a companion called Siwarha is distorting the red supergiant's atmosphere.
The Swift telescope will fall to Earth after a failed rescue
After almost 22 years hunting cosmic explosions, the NASA observatory is reentering the atmosphere uncontrolled.
Hubble finds that oxygen is missing from dwarf galaxies
Supernova explosions expel more oxygen from small galaxies than models predicted.
The star cluster that is almost as old as the universe
A cluster hidden behind the dust of the galactic center may be 13.4 billion years old.
Martian dust is gentler than lunar dust, but it has risks
Spacesuit samples aboard Perseverance barely wore down over 1,645 Martian days.
Artemis II returns to Earth after its trip around the Moon
The four astronauts splashed down off San Diego on April 10, 2026.
A theorem strengthens the case that the universe had a beginning
Raphael Bousso extends a singularity theorem into the quantum realm.
What if 3I/ATLAS were an alien spacecraft? Avi Loeb raises the hypothesis
A Harvard paper analyzes, as an exercise, whether the interstellar visitor could be hostile.
K2-18b: the signs of life that still don't convince
James Webb hinted at molecules linked to life, but later reanalyses don't confirm them.
Hubble finds the "missing" black hole in Omega Centauri
Seven stars moving too fast give away an intermediate-mass black hole.
Polaris Dawn: the first commercial spacewalk
Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out into the vacuum in September 2024.
The world's oldest computer tracked the lunar calendar
Gravitational-wave techniques solve a riddle of the Antikythera mechanism.
Europa's oceans could host long-lived hydrothermal vents
A model shows seafloor heat could last billions of years.
An interstellar messenger to find Planet Nine?
An astrophysicist proposes using interstellar meteors to track the hypothetical planet.