Tiny Cubesat Will Shine an Infrared ‘Flashlight’ Into the Moon’s Shadowed Craters, Searching for Water Ice
A tiny spacecraft is ready to head out for a big job: shining a light on water ice at the…
It’s Feeding Time For This Baby Star in Orion
Young protostars are wrapped in what could be called a womb of gas and dust. The gas and dust nearest…
Mauna Loa is Erupting for the First Time in 40 Years. Here’s What it Looks Like From Space.
A sleeping giant of a volcano woke up this past week on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mauna Loa, which…
Should We Build a Nature Reserve on Mars?
There are 8 billion of us now. The UN says when the population peaks around the year 2100, there'll be…
NASA Releases a Stunning New Supercut of the Artemis I Launch
NASA just released a new supercut of high-resolution video from the Artemis I launch on November 16, 2022. Much of…
Two Great Globular Clusters Seen by Hubble: Pismis 26 and Ruprecht 106
If you like shiny things, some of the most gorgeous objects in space are globular clusters, with their bright, densely…
What if we’re truly alone?
At least once, you’ve looked up at the night sky and asked the same longstanding question we’ve all asked at…
Astronomers Detect the Faint Glow of Stars in Between Galaxies
Not all stars are members of galaxies. Some stars exist in the space between galaxies, though they didn't form there.…
Astronomers Directly Image Debris Disk and find a Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbiting a Sunlike Star
The SHINE collaboration recently observed a Super-Jupiter within a young debris orbiting a nearby star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss…
BlueWalker 3 is a Cellphone Tower in Space and One of the Brightest Objects Ever Launched. Astronomers Aren’t Happy.
It seems our nighttime skies are hosting another new communications network. In recent years, we've seen Starlink trains of satellites…