NASA Wants Your Help Designing a Starshade to Observe Exoplanets
NASA is seeking the public's input for a Starshade that will allow ground-based telescopes to Directly Image exoplanets!
Astronomers Have a New Way to Find Exoplanets in Cataclysmic Binary Systems
Have you heard of LU Camelopardalis, QZ Serpentis, V1007 Herculis and BK Lyncis? No, they're not members of a boy…
JWST Sees the Most Distant Galaxy Ever, Just 300 Million Years After the Big Bang
By now, almost everyone has seen the first-release images from JWST and marveled at these amazing views of the infrared…
Japanese Researchers Show how Microgravity Affects Astronauts’ Muscles and Nerves
A new study by a Japanese research team shows that long term exposure to microgravity not only affect muscles and…
Gravitational Wave Telescopes Could Detect Clumps of Dark Matter Drifting Through the Solar System
Attempts to directly detect dark matter have come up empty. A team of physicists have proposed a brand new method:…
Here’s M74 Like You’ve Never Seen it Before, Thanks to Judy Schmidt and JWST
The JWST is grabbing headlines and eyeballs as its mission gains momentum. The telescope recently imaged M74 (NGC 628) with…
An Ambitious Plan to Find Earth 2.0
When it comes to astronomy, the more instruments watching the sky, the better. Which is why it has been so…
A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way
What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a…
You can see Where JWST Took a Direct hit From a Micrometeorite on one of its Mirrors
A recently-released report examines the James Webb Space Telescope's performance and discusses the micrometeoroid impacts that could threaten the mission
Uh Oh, NASA is Reviewing Psyche and May Terminate the Mission
NASA is reviewing its mission to visit the asteroid 16 Psyche. The Administration has convened a 15-member review board to…