Extending Earth's Internet to Mars With Orbital Data Servers
More spacecraft is due to fly to Mars and will send their data home. Human explorers will want to access…
Early Black Holes Were Bigger Than We Thought
Every large galaxy in the nearby universe contains a supermassive black hole at its core. The mass of those black…
There Could Be Captured Planets in the Oort Cloud
The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the…
Mind-Blowing Animation Shows What the World Would Look Like If You Could See Carbon Dioxide Emissions
It's a strange, eerie-looking place. Carbon dioxide gas appears… and disappears in cycles and bursts throughout the year. It's how…
The Earth’s Rotational Pole has Shifted from All the Groundwater We’ve Pumped Out
Earth is, in many ways, a water world. Around two-thirds of its surface is covered in water, and the oceans…
Nancy Grace Roman Could Detect Supermassive Dark Stars
Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even…
A Brown Dwarf is Getting Hit With So Much Radiation it's Hotter Than the Sun
Astronomers have found a brown dwarf companion to a white dwarf star with a day-side temperature of around 8,000 kelvin…
BepiColumbo Makes its Third Flyby of Mercury, Seeing the Planet's Night Side
ESA's BepiColumbo continues its journey to Mercury by making another flyby ... of Mercury! This is the third of six…
Bringing the Gift of Hope to Ukrainian Kids through Astronomy
Through education, virtual tours, and outreach programs, Earthlings Hub is inspiring Ukrainians orphans and refugees to reach for the stars!
The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole had a Burst of Activity 200 Years Ago. We Just Saw the Echo.
We in the Milky Way Galaxy are pretty lucky to have a fairly quiet central supermassive black hole in Sgr…