You’re Looking at One of the Farthest Confirmed Galaxies Found by JWST
Astronomers have confirmed the age of Maisie's galaxy, which existed when the Universe was just 390 million years old, making…
We’ve Never Seen Antarctic Sea Ice This Low
While many people are living through a sweltering summer, it's the depths of winter in Antarctica. Usually, this means there's…
The 2nd Annual Penn State SETI Symposium and the Search for Technosignatures!
This year's Penn State SETI Symposium provided a good rundown of the field and the kinds of studies scientists will…
A Robot With Expandable Appendages Could Explore Martian Caves And Cliffs
Plenty of areas in the solar system are interesting for scientific purposes but hard to access by traditional rovers. Some…
New Muon g-2 Result Improves the Measurement by a Factor of 2
The results from the first three years of Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab provide further evidence for the existence of…
Storms on Saturn Can Have Impacts That Last for Hundreds of Years
While Jupiter has the famous Great Red Spot cyclonic storm, the other giant planets have less turbulent-looking surfaces. But they…
Astronomers Scan 11,680 Nearby Stars for Signals from Advanced Civilizations
The hunt for alien life and its radio signals from beyond our Solar System is still coming up dry. But,…
Could Puncturing A Satellite’s Battery Help It Deorbit Faster?
A few years ago, there was a panic about lithium-ion batteries that exploded and could do things like take down…
An Improved Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Could Dramatically Reduce The Weight Of Interplanetary Missions
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) are the power plants of the interplanetary spacecraft. Or at least they have been for going…
Vera Rubin Will Find Many More Interstellar Objects
Astronomers have discovered two interstellar objects, Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. When the Vera C Rubin Observatory comes online next year, it'll…