Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 2: The Astronomer's Headache
Reported by Universe Today
Dust scatters light, absorbs light, re-emits light, and ruins everything. It's why our maps of the Milky Way were wrong before 1930, and it's why one of the biggest cosmological announcements of the 2010s quietly evaporated....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Thu, 21 May 2026 14:16 +0000
NASA Welcomes 16th Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson
Reported by NASA
Matt Anderson was sworn in Thursday as NASA’s 16th deputy administrator by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. The oath was taken during a ceremony held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. As NASA deputy administrator, Anderson will...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08 +0000
NASA Highlights 2025 International Space Station Science Results
Reported by NASA
To dive deeper into the International Space Station research achievements from the past year, browse the 2025 Annual Highlights of Results, which NASA released in May 2026. In 2025, researchers using the orbital laboratory conducted more than 750 investiga...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00 +0000
Study Shows How Sunspot Activity Speeds Up Reentries
Reported by Universe Today
It’s getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX’s Starlink and other players in the mega-satellite constellation game are adding an exponential load of satellites and orbital debris to the low Earth orbit environment. But a...
- By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
- On: Thu, 21 May 2026 13:52 +0000
SNAPPY CubeSat Takes Flight to Test Space-Based Neutrino Detectors
Reported by Universe Today
Neutrinos, the second most common fundamental particles in the universe, are notoriously difficult to detect. So far we’ve only been able to do so by building giant vats of water far underground with hundreds of photodetectors watching for brief flashes ...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Thu, 21 May 2026 12:26 +0000
Ice volcanoes on Ganymede? New promising candidates found
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Are there ice volcanoes on Ganymede? A new international study reveals several good candidates on Jupiter's large ocean moon.
The post Ice volcanoes on Ganymede? New promising candidates found first appeared on EarthSky....
- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Thu, 21 May 2026 11:32 +0000