How Growing Giant Planets Fight for Food
A new study has shown that in order to grow more than one giant planet in the same solar system,…
The Voids Closest to Us May Not be Entirely Empty
The large scale structure of the universe is dominated by vast empty regions known as cosmic voids. These voids appear…
We Have Ignition! Fusion Breakthrough Raises Hopes — and Questions
For the first time ever, physicists have set off a controlled nuclear fusion reaction that released more energy than what…
Asteroids Didn’t Create the Moon’s Largest Craters. Left-Over Planetesimals Did
The Moon's pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It's marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the…
Orion Splashes Down in the Pacific Ocean, Completing the Artemis I Mission
The Artemis I mission has splashed down, ending its mission and validating the technology that will take astronauts back to…
Webb Completes its First “Deep Field” With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?
About 13 billion years ago, the stars in the Universe's earliest galaxies sent photons out into space. Some of those…
Black Holes Shouldn’t be Able to Merge, but Dozens of Mergers Have Been Detected. How Do They Do It?
Who knows what lurks in the hearts of some globular clusters? Astronomers using a collection of gravitational wave observatories found…
Perhaps a Supervoid Doesn’t Explain the Mysterious CMB Cold Spot
For years cosmologists had thought that a strange feature appearing in the microwave sky, known as the CMB cold spot,…
A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years
Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them,…
Life on Proxima b Is Not Having a Good Time
The nearest known exoplanet to Earth, the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, experiences some pretty nasty space weather from its parent…