The Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
As of this writing, almost 5300 exoplanets spanning approximately 4000 planetary systems have been confirmed to exist in our universe.…
Even the Largest Structures in the Universe Have a Magnetic Field
The cosmic web is filled with magnetic fields, and we are starting to observe them at last.
Not Just Water. Enceladus is Also Blasting Silica Into Space
Deep beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, something's happening that causes particles of icy silica to spew out…
A New Survey of the Sky Contains Over One Billion Galaxies
What contains a petabyte of data on more than a billion galaxies in one of the most extensive sky maps?…
Astronomers Suspected There Should Be a Planet Here, and Then They Took a Picture of it
Two teams independently discovered a super-Jupiter around a nearby Sun-like star using astrometry and direct imaging.
59 New Planets Discovered in Our Neighborhood
The CARMENESE Consortium just released the first collection of data, which revealed 59 new exoplanets and doubled the number of…
Europa Could be Covered in Salty Ice
Jupiter’s second Galilean moon, Europa, is one of the most fascinating planetary objects in our Solar System with its massive…
Recreating the Extreme Forces of an Asteroid Impact in the Lab
About 50,000 years ago, a nickel-iron meteorite some 50 meters across plowed into the Pleistocene-era grasslands of what is now…
It Should be Possible to Farm on the Moon
An astronaut’s gotta eat, right? Especially if they are on a long-duration mission to places like the Moon. Scientists have…
Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
The early Universe was swimming with dwarf galaxies only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. They merged…