How Crazy Magnetic Fields Drive the Sun Mad
Solar coronal jets are fast moving plumes of plasma that erupt suddenly from the polar regions of the Sun. Astronomers…
Mars Rover’s Dead, Comet Incoming, JWST’s First Exoplanet
Keep your eyes on the sky for a comet, another Mars rover has died, the leaky Soyuz will be replaced,…
NASA’s Exoplanet Watch Wants Your Help Studying Planets Around Other Stars
NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!
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…