Stephen Hawking’s father feared for ‘lazy’ son, diary reveals - The Times
The journals, written in a secret code, offer a glimpse of how Frank Hawking privately felt about his genius son
By Rhys Blakely
The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they've found the scraps - KSL.com
An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago.
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Something ‘unprecedented’ is now happening to Earth’s rotation, scientists say - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Climate change is slowing Earth’s spin – and there’s nothing quite like it in 3.6 million years
By Tom Howarth
Mathematicians solve decades-old mystery about the hidden order in high-dimensional randomness - Phys.org
Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel prize winner—that first posed the problem didn't believe it would ever be solved. The solution provides insight into high-dimensional r…
By Krystal Kasal
In 1990, after years of lobbying by Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned its camera back toward home from about 6 billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a pale blue speck smaller than a single pixel — an image NASA had repeatedly resisted because it - Space Daily
On 14 February 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft turned its cameras back toward the inner solar system and photographed the planets it had left behind. Among the 60 frames was one that caught Earth: a point of light less than a single pixel across, sitting in a …
By Space Daily
Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait nearly two days to know whether the spacecraft responded - Space Daily
Sending a command to Voyager 1 is closer to mailing a letter than placing a phone call. The probe, launched in September 1977, is now roughly 16 billion miles from Earth, heading away from the Sun at roughly 38,000 miles per hour. In November 2026, Voyager 1 …
By Space Daily
15 sci-fi books you absolutely have to read before you die. - Space
From Isaac Asimov to Andy Weir, we've rounded up the best sci-fi books you have to read.
By Chris McMullen
Evidence of Ancient Life Found Buried Under an Asteroid Crater - ScienceAlert
Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreading until it covered nearly every corner of the planet.
By Michelle Starr
Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space - PetaPixel
The film captured something beautiful and otherworldly.
By Matt Growcoot
China launches 'human artificial embryos' to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world - Yahoo
China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station. Experiments could shed light on ...
By Harry Baker
The most common type of planet in the galaxy may not look anything like Earth on the inside - Space
The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than the rule for exoplanets.
By Paul Sutter
The Voyager Golden Record carries greetings in 55 languages — a deliberate attempt to send a small sample of human voices into deep space long after the spacecraft fell silent. - Space Daily
In April 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory switched off another instrument on Voyager 1 — the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, which had been running, with few interruptions, since the spacecraft launched in 1977. The reason was unro…
By Space Daily
Chinese scientists suggest harsh environments foster early human creativity - South China Morning Post
The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.
By Post Magazine
The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Scientists Now Know Why - WIRED
There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.
By Jorge Garay
NASA to add missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract - SpaceNews
NASA plans to add missions to SpaceX’s commercial crew contract, protecting the agency from the possibility that Boeing’s spacecraft is never certified.
By Jeff Foust
Massive gravity “hole” beneath the Indian Ocean finally gets a possible explanation after decades of scie - The Times of India
Science News: For decades, a vast region south of India has quietly refused to make sense. Satellites mapping Earth’s shape kept returning the same unsettling resul.
By TOI Science Desk
A NASA satellite launched in 1976 carries a Carl Sagan–designed plaque sealed inside its core, mapping Earth's continents 268 million years ago, at launch, and 8.4 million years from now — and that last date is no accident, because it's roughly when the sat - Space Daily
On 4 May 1976, NASA launched a satellite called LAGEOS-1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It is one of the simplest objects ever put into orbit. It is a sphere about 60 centimetres across, weighing roughly 400 kilograms, with no electronics, no s…
By Space Daily
Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it - Space Daily
Atomic oxygen, the most common particle in low Earth orbit, chemically erodes spacecraft surfaces continuously. The ISS survives only because every external material has been chosen, coated, and scheduled for replacement against this slow molecular attack.
By Space Daily
The Vela satellites were built to catch secret nuclear tests, but they accidentally recorded flashes from deep space that opened a new branch of astrophysics - Space Daily
The U.S. military's nuclear detection satellites started catching mysterious gamma-ray flashes in 1967 that did not match any known weapon signature. The discovery stayed classified for six years before it became clear the flashes were exploding stars billion…
By Space Daily
Webb just clocked nearly 9,000 young star clusters and found the biggest ones break from their birth clouds in 5 million years, a timing clue that could reshape how astronomers model galaxies growing up - Space Daily
The James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers a sharper look at how young star clusters escape their birthplaces, and the result cuts against the simple intuition that smaller clusters should clear out faster. In a Nature Astronomy study, researchers u…
By Space Daily