This Exoplanet Orbits Around its Star’s Poles
In 1992, humanity's effort to understand the Universe took a significant step forward. That's when astronomers discovered the first exoplanets.…
Sierra Space Tests Another Inflatable Space Station Module … to Destruction
Oops! They’ve done it again. Sierra Space blew up their space habitat for the third time – intentionally -- all…
Check Out This Great View of Comet 96P Machholz, Courtesy of SOHO
Now’s the time to catch periodic Comet 96P Machholz on its encore dawn performance, before it slides out of view.
Earth-Sized Planet Found At One of the Lightest Red Dwarfs
Astronomers have found another Earth-sized planet. It's about 31 light-years away and orbits in the habitable zone of a red…
Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula Nebula
The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is the brightest star-forming region in our part of the galaxy. It's in…
Face-on View of Galaxy NGC 4303 Reveals its Arms are Filled with Active Star Formation
Galaxies fill a lot of roles in the universe. The most obvious one is star formation factories. Without that activity,…
JWST Unexpectedly Finds a Small Asteroid During ‘Failed’ Observations
While astronomers and engineers were trying to calibrate one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments last summer, they serendipitously…
Rolls-Royce Space Reactor, Close Call in Orbit, Webb’s Back
Webb is fully operational again, Rolls-Royce is building a nuclear reactor for the Moon, and the space debris worst-case scenario…
A.I. Finds a New Way to Build Multiple-Star Systems
Over over 50% of high mass stars reside in multiple star systems. But due to their complex orbital interactions, physicists…
Astronomers use Earthquakes to Understand Glitches on Neutron Stars
A team of astronomers have used a model of earthquakes to understand glitches in the timing of pulsars. Their results…