Carina Nebula — star formation region photographed by JWST

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newsJuly 14, 2025

Polaris Dawn: The Mission That Made History with the First Commercial Spacewalk

On Sept 12, 2024, Jared Isaacman opened a Dragon hatch 460 miles up — the first private spacewalk. The mission, the new SpaceX EVA suit, and the Polaris Program next steps.

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analysisJuly 9, 2025

The Nearest Earth-Like Exoplanets: Our Cosmic Neighbors

The closest potentially habitable worlds: Proxima Centauri b at 4.2 light-years, Barnard's Star b, Ross 128b, Wolf 1061c, Tau Ceti, and the Breakthrough Starshot plan.

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analysisJuly 1, 2025

From the Big Bang to Today: A 13.8 Billion Year Journey

A 13.8-billion-year timeline of the universe: from inflation and the first atoms to JWST's cosmic dawn images, galaxy formation, and the origins of life on Earth.

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newsJuly 1, 2025

Europe's New Space Race: The Startups Building Independent Launch Capability

Isar Aerospace, RFA, PLD Space, and Orbex are racing to restore Europe's independent access to orbit — from SaxaVord in Scotland to Spain's Miura rocket.

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guideJune 30, 2025

How to Get an Internship at NASA, SpaceX, or ESA: A Complete Guide

How to land a NASA, SpaceX, ESA, JPL, or Rocket Lab internship: application timelines, citizenship rules, resume tips, and what interviewers actually ask STEM students.

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guideJune 25, 2025

Astrophotography with Your Smartphone: A Beginner's Guide

How to photograph the Moon, Jupiter, and the Milky Way with just a smartphone: night mode settings, tripod tricks, RAW capture, and the apps that actually work.

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guideJune 23, 2025

Aerospace Engineering Career Guide: From Student to Rocket Scientist

What it actually takes to become an aerospace engineer in 2025: degrees, specializations, salaries at NASA vs SpaceX, and the day-to-day reality of the job.

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analysisJune 23, 2025

Enceladus: The Tiny Moon with a Global Ocean and Geysers of Hope

Cassini found geysers, hydrothermal vents, and phosphorus erupting from Enceladus — a 504-km moon with a global ocean that may be our best shot at alien life.

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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft with its massive solar arrays, built to study Jupiter's moon Europa

analysisJune 17, 2025

Europa Clipper: Our Best Shot at Finding Alien Life in the Solar System

NASA's Europa Clipper launched October 2024 to probe Jupiter's icy moon — whose subsurface ocean holds twice Earth's water and may harbor the conditions for life.

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analysisJune 13, 2025

Exo Wonders: The 10 Most Fascinating Exoplanets We Know Of in 2025

From a planet made of diamond to worlds with oceans of lava, these 10 exoplanets are the strangest places astronomers have found beyond our solar system — and what they teach us.

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The first-ever image of a black hole — M87's supermassive black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope

analysisJune 12, 2025

Black Holes Explained: From Stellar Remnants to Supermassive Monsters

Black holes explained: how stellar collapse makes them, what happens at the event horizon, Hawking radiation, LIGO gravitational waves, and the M87 and Sgr A* images.

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Vivid green and purple aurora borealis lighting up the night sky

guideJune 9, 2025

The Northern Lights Explained: Science Behind the Aurora and Where to See Them

The aurora borealis explained: solar wind, the magnetosphere, oxygen and nitrogen emission colors, Kp index forecasting, and the best places on Earth to see the lights.

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