Scientists who read 16 years of radio tracking from three Mars orbiters say the mantle beneath the planet's southern highlands runs 200 to…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 5, 2026
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SpaceX’s Starship V3 produces more thrust than Saturn V and SLS Block 1 combined
By The Long View · Sep 4, 2026
From Titan’s Saturn-facing side, Saturn would span about 5.6 degrees and stay in the same broad part of the sky while librating by roughly…
By The Long View · Sep 3, 2026
Every sight you have ever seen reached your eyes through an extraordinarily narrow band of electromagnetic radiation, roughly 380 to 700…
By The Long View · Sep 1, 2026
The $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope was built around a mirror the U.S. intelligence community no longer needed
By The Long View · Aug 31, 2026
Mercury is almost airless, reaches 430°C by day and −180°C at night, yet MESSENGER data suggest its ancient crust contained volatile-rich…
By The Long View · Aug 30, 2026
Enceladus looks nothing like a habitable world
By The Long View · Aug 29, 2026
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30 carrying a mirror the same 2.4-metre diameter as Hubble’s
By The Long View · Aug 29, 2026
In July 2025, a telescope in Chile spotted a tiny moving dot inside Jupiter’s orbit
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
From roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, ISS astronauts experience about 16 sunrises every day—not because the Sun rises faster, but…
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
On 1 July 2025, a planetary-defence telescope in Chile built to spot dangerous asteroids found something far rarer
By The Long View · Aug 27, 2026
Real vacuum-exposure records contradict almost everything Hollywood has taught about it
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 27, 2026