Two “Super Mercury” Exoplanets Found in a Single System
There's a star system out there with three super-Earth planets and two super-Mercuries. Super-Earths are fairly familiar types of exoplanets,…
A Computer Algorithm is 88% Accurate in Finding Gravitational Lenses
Astronomers have been assessing a new machine learning algorithm to determine how reliable it is for finding gravitational lenses hidden…
A Single High-Resolution Image of Dimorphos Stacked From DART’s Final Images
Here’s a sharper view of Dimorphos, the small asteroid moonlet that the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally crashed…
A Dwarf Galaxy Passed Close to the Milky Way and Left Ripples in its Wake
An ancient collison with the Milky Way is still causing ripples in our galaxy according to Gaia data.
Stars Spiral Inward to the Cores of Stellar Nurseries
Astronomers studying a stellar cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) have found young stars spiraling in towards the center…
Mysterious Europa Gets an Extreme Closeup From NASA’s Juno Probe
Over the course of a brief two-hour opportunity, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a rare close look at Europa, an ice-covered…
The Moon was Pummeled by Asteroids at the Same Time the Dinosaurs Died. Coincidence?
It only takes a quick look at the Moon to see its impact-beaten surface. There are craters everywhere. Some of…
DART Impact Seen by Hubble and Webb
What happens when you whack a little asteroid with an even littler spacecraft? People around the world watched on the…
NASA and SpaceX Will Study Low-Cost Plan to Give Hubble a Boost
NASA and SpaceX say they'll conduct a feasibility study into a plan to reboost the 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope to…
The First Telescope Images of DART's Impact are Starting to Arrive
The ESA just released a video that shows the DART mission impacting the double-asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos.