One in Ten Stars Ate a Jupiter (Or Bigger)
In space, cataclysmic events happen to stars all the time. Some explode as supernovae, some get torn apart by black…
Building Planetary Systems That Could Last Forever
An advanced civilization might use horseshoe orbits to bring their vacation spots closer to home.
NASA Uses Powerful Transmitters to Talk to Deep Space Spacecraft. Will Other Civilizations Receive Those Signals?
In a recent study submitted to the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, a pair of researchers from…
Chasing SpaceX: The Commercial Space Race Gets a Reality Check
Can anyone keep up with SpaceX in the commercial space race? It might be one of the four companies profiled…
We Can Only Bring 30 Samples of Mars Back to Earth. How Do We Decide?
The Mars Sample Return Mission is one of the most ambitious missions ever conceived. Though the samples won't be returned…
What Does the Milky Way Look Like?
A team from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has revealed a new picture of the Milky Way's morphology.
JWST Fails to Disprove the Big Bang
The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see deeper into cosmic history than ever before, but it doesn't…
LISA Will Be a Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Observatory. But There’s a Way to Make it 100 Times More Powerful
A team of researchers with the ESA propose an upgrade for the LISA mission (LISAMax), which could revolutionize gravitational wave…
Astronomers Watch a Star Gulp Down One of its Planets
A star like our Sun only shines the way it does because of its intrinsic balance. Stars are massive, and…
JUICE in Trouble, Sun-Like Star Devours a Planet, Space Station with Artificial Gravity
JUICE is having problems extending its radar antenna. Astronomers watch a star eat its planet. A design for a space…