How Close Can a Planet Get to a Star and Still Be Habitable?
In exoplanetology, the ring around the star is often called the "Goldilocks zone," in reference to the 19th-century fairy tale…
A Feline in the Heavens: The Smiling Cat Nebula
A stellar nursery sounds like a placid place where baby stars go about their business undisturbed. But, of course, a…
That New Car Smell… But for Planets
Remember how a new car smells? It's a chemical signature of all the materials used to make the car's interior.…
Two New Space Telescopes Will Bring Dark Energy Into Focus
The ESA's Euclid and NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will work together to resolve the mystery of cosmic expansion!
What Would the Milky Way Look Like From Afar?
Even though we're embedded inside the Milky Way, we don't know precisely what our galaxy looks like. Astronomers have had…
UK Professor Granted JWST Observation Time to Study Jupiter’s Upper Atmosphere
A professor from Northumbria University in the North East region of England has been granted telescope time with NASA’s James…
AI Could Help Astronomers Rapidly Generate Hypotheses
Almost anywhere you go on the internet, it seems nearly impossible to escape articles on AI. Even here at UT,…
Another Key Molecule for Life Found in Space by JWST
The search for life is an incredibly evocative driver of cosmic exploration. It captures our imagination to think that there…
Check out the Cool New Designs for Europe’s Future Spacesuits
While the European Space Agency isn’t planning to build their own spacesuits anytime soon, they want to be ready. ESA…
A New Way to Measure Distances in the Universe
If we want to understand the Universe, we have to start with its size. Ancient people had no idea there…