Astronomers Find 25 Fast Radio Bursts That Repeat on a Regular Basis
Researchers with the CHIME/FRB Collaboration have announced the discovery of 25 new repeating FRBs, almost doubling the number of known…
Molecular Clouds Have Long Lives By Constantly Reassembling Themselves
Astronomers have recently discovered that giant clouds of molecular hydrogen, the birthplace of stars, can live for tens of millions…
Nuclear Rocket In 2027, JWST Problems, Starship WDR
Starship completes its wet-dress rehearsal, another problem for Webb, a nuclear rocket test is coming, and more cool NIAC grants.…
Astronomers See Flashes on the Sun That Could be a Sign of an Upcoming Flare
Using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, scientists have discovered new clues that could help predict when and where the…
Does Failing to Detect Aliens Mean We’ll Never Be Contacted?
In a recent paper submitted to The Astronomical Journal in November 2022, a scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of…
A Martian Meteorite Contains Organic Compounds. The Raw Ingredients for Life?
In a recent study published in Sciences Advances, an international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich…
Beautiful New Hubble Photo Shows Hot, Young Variable Stars in the Orion Nebula
Here’s another striking image from the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. These billows of blue and red show a detailed look…
It’s Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star’s Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes
Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we've found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to…
NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by…
Europe Will be Building the Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return Mission
Now that the Perseverance rover has dropped off ten regolith and rock sample tubes for a future sample return mission…