The Sun Gets Meteor Showers Too, But They’re Very Different
The Sun dominates the Solar System in almost every way imaginable, yet much of its inner workings have been hidden…
New Horizons is So Far Away, it Can Measure the True Darkness of the Universe
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft has completed its flybys of Pluto and Arrakoth and is now about 8 billion kilometers from…
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…