A New Planet-Hunting Instrument Has Been Installed on the Very Large Telescope
A new study shows how existing observatories like the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) can be upgraded to perform cutting-edge…
Dark Matter Could Be Annihilating Inside White Dwarfs
Astronomers still don't know what dark matter is, but one of its characteristics is that it has a small "cross…
Lose Yourself in the JWST’s Exquisite Image of Barnard’s Galaxy
There may come a day when we grow weary of JWST images. But it's not today. Today, we can lose…
Want to Safely Watch the Sun With a Large Group? Get a Disco Ball
The upcoming solar eclipses and the current high sunspot activity means it’s a great time to observe the Sun. Eclipses…
Colliding Moons Might Have Created Saturn’s Rings
If we could wind the clock back billions of years, we'd see our Solar System the way it used to…
Is it Life, or is it Volcanoes?
Astronomers are working hard to understand biosignatures and how they indicate life's presence on an exoplanet. But each planet we…
If Earth is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-Years
A new study estimates that there could be 11,000 habitable planets within 100 parsecs of our Sun, the nearest being…
NASA Opens the Lid on OSIRIS-REx's Sample Capsule
NASA teams have started the intricate process of removing the samples of asteroid Bennu from their canister.
How Do Lava Worlds Become Earth-Like, Living Planets?
Earth was once entirely molten. Planetary scientists call this phase in a planet's evolution a magma ocean, and Earth may…
Day Has Returned, but India’s Lander and Rover have Failed to Wake Up
It looks like India's Chandrayaan-3 succumbed to the cold, and its mission is over. The frigid lunar night lasted about…