Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery
When we look at images of star birth regions, they look both placid and active at the same time. That's…
Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shield
NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space…
Maybe We Don’t See Aliens Because Nobody Wants to Come Here
The Fermi Paradox won't go away. It's one of our most compelling thought experiments, and generations of scientists keep wrestling…
Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision
Earlier this month we asked, what could be better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic…
The New Ariane 6 Heavy Lift Rocket is Finally on the Launch Pad, But Won’t Liftoff Until Late 2023
A prototype of ESA’s new heavy lift rocket is now fully assembled and sitting on the launchpad at Europe’s Spaceport…
Lucy Zipped Past Earth to get a Gravitational Assist Towards Jupiter’s Trojans
Gravitational assists are marvels of orbital mechanics. Usually, they are done for a combination of fuel (i.e., cost) savings and…
NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years
The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful. But a…
A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy
It's been a banner time for black hole research! In recent months, astrophysicists have announced the discovery of the most…
Scientists Find an Ancient Stellar Catalog Written by Hipparcus Hidden in a Medieval Tome
Spectral imaging reveals the Hipparchus astronomical catalog was much more precise than we thought.
A Nearby Star Has Completely Blasted Away the Atmosphere From its Planet
What if you placed an Earth-sized planet in a close orbit around an M-dwarf star? It's more than an academic…