We have let down teens if we ban social media but embrace AI
If you are in your 70s, you didn’t fight in the second world war. Such a statement should be uncontroversial,…
Month: September 2025
Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old
The icy dwarf planet Ceres may once have been habitable NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) The dwarf planet Ceres looks cold…
There might be a ‘Planet Y’ hiding in the outer solar system
Are there unseen planets in our solar system? Peter Jurik/Alamy Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new…
JWST gets a closer look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Infrared images of 3I/ATLAS captured by the James Webb Space Telescope NASA/James Webb Space Telescope The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is…
CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines
Researchers test a chest compression machine on a dummy in an aeroplane CNES Microgravity makes it tricky to do simple…
SpaceX’s Starship rocket finally completes successful test flight
A SpaceX Starship rocket launches in its tenth flight test from Launch Complex 1 at Starbase, Texas UPI/Alamy The world’s…
Space weather expert Tamitha Skov explains why auroras have been so unusual this solar cycle
Unexpectedly bright northern lights illuminated UK skies in 2024 John Hayward/SWNS If you’re a fan of the aurora borealis, or…
Get ready for a glorious Harvest Blood Moon on 7 September
“Find the moon and watch it darken and redden…” JG Photography/Alamy My feelings about the moon changed in the past…
NASA’s first space photos restored in stunning detail
John Glenn during the fiery re-entry NASA/Andy Saunders ON 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American…
Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?
“In 2050 … the first 100 m-diameter telescope took shape in a crater on the lunar surface” Vladimir Vustyansky/NASA The…