Astronomers Spot an Orphaned Protostar
Astronomers have performed an impressive suite of observations at multiple wavelengths of the same system, dubbed the HH 24 complex.…
How Life Reshapes the Habitable Zone
Astronomers are very interested in the Habitable Zone of distant stars, which is the orbital radius where liquid water, and…
UFO Update Says Pentagon’s Case Count Is Rising Rapidly
A new report to Congress says the Pentagon's task force on UFOs --- now known as unidentified aerial phenomena, or…
NASA Satellites can Pinpoint the Exact Locations of Excessive CO2 Emissions
Using data from two climate monitoring satellites, a group led by Canadian researchers tracked carbon emissions from a single coal…
One Day There Could be a Pipeline of Oxygen Flowing From the Moon’s South Pole
The Artemis program intends to put humans on the Moon for the first time since NASA's Apollo missions. But Artemis…
Astronomers Used a Fast Radio Burst to Probe the Structure of the Milky Way
Astronomers from Caltech used a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) from another galaxy to probe the distribution of matter in the…
TESS has Found A Second Earth-Sized World in This System. Exoplanet Science is Maturing
For planet-hunters, finding an Earth-sized exoplanet must be special. NASA estimates there are about 100 billion planets in the Milky…
NASA is Continuing to Build the Titan Dragonfly Helicopter. Here are its Rotors
Ingenuity, the helicopter assisting NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on its mission, has been a huge success. It gathered the achievement…
JWST Pioneer Passes Along Advice for Future Space Telescope Builders
After a quarter-century of development, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is a smashing success. But senior project scientist John Mather,…
Astronomers Begin to Understand Strange “Backsplash” Galaxies
Clusters of galaxies do not appear in an instant. Instead they gradually form through the accumulation of many galaxies. But…