Space

The Apollo photos really shouldn’t have been part of the big UFO drop. Last Friday (May 8), the Pentagon released its first batch of declassified “UFO files,” responding to a directive that President Donald Trump issued in February. Many of the 158 files focus on recent sightings by advanced U.S. military sensors — a “misshapen and uneven ball of white light” flying over Syria in…

The most mysterious and yet ubiquitous stuff in the cosmos, dark matter is effectively invisible. This is simply because it doesn’t interact with light. But what if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear it instead? New research suggests dark matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves”…

We just learned a little more about NASA’s next Artemis mission. The agency dropped a few details on Wednesday (May 13) about Artemis 3, a crewed mission that will test rendezvous and docking operations with one or more lunar landers close to home. “While this is a mission to Earth orbit, it is an important stepping stone to successfully landing on the moon with Artemis 4,” Jeremy Parsons…

The world’s first space-based neutrino detector launched to space last week to study elusive neutrino particles that constantly bombard Earth. The mission will test technology that could help researchers in the future to unravel hidden processes taking place deep inside the sun. The detector, made of crystals of gallium and tungsten, is embedded in a 3U cubesat (about 12 inches long and 4…