Need To Image An Asteroid Close Up? There’s an AMIGO For That.
There are so many asteroids. Just in our own backyard, we've found over 30,000 Near Earth asteroids. Exploring them using…
A Gamma Ray Burst Lasted So Long it Triggered a Satellite Twice
amma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe, briefly outshining all the stars in their galaxy combined. They…
Witnesses Play Up the Alien Angle at Congressional UFO Hearing
Three former insiders who have played a role in dealing with UFOs -- or as they've now come to be…
One Year of JWST. Ultimate Recap
It's already been one year of operations for James Webb. We accumulated all the major scientific results, all the amazing…
Astronomers Have a New Trick to Work out the Age of Stars
Determining the age of a star is surprisingly tricky and has wide error bars. It's only inside star clusters that…
A Fine Southern Apparition for Comet T4 Lemmon
The time to catch Comet T4 Lemmon is now, before it vanishes for another 36,000 years.
There Could be Trillions of Rogue Planets Wandering the Milky Way
A pair of new studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal examine new discoveries in the field of…
A New Technique Lets Us Learn What the Milky Way’s Arms Are Made Of
We're all used to seeing maps of the Milky Way rich with stars and nebulae. But, there are regions we…
JWST Sees Newly Forming Planets Swimming in Water
One big question about Earth’s formation is, where did all the water come from? New data from the James Webb…
This Mess of Boulders Was Deposited by an Ancient River on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover took its 20th sample from "Emerald Lake," an area filled by rocks that were deposited by an…