Carbon-12 is an Essential Building Block for Life and Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How it Forms in Stars
Artist's impression of a red giant star. Their cores are cauldrons where carbon-12 is produced. Credit:NASA/ Walt Feimer Each of…
Merging Supermassive Black Holes Gives us a New Way to Measure the Universe
A team of astronomers from Columbia University has found a new way to probe the depths of merging black holes,…
Did a 5th Giant Planet Mess up the Orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
The solar system’s current planetary orbits seem stable, but that’s only because the planets have settled into them over billions…
Astronomers Find a Star That Contains 65 Different Elements
Have you ever held a chunk of gold in your hand? Not a little piece of jewelry, but an ounce…
Scouring Through old Hubble Images Turned up 1,000 new Asteroids
Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the…
Engineers Design an Electrical Microgrid for a Lunar Base
Sandia National Laboratories is developing microgrid technology that will power the Artemis Base Camp and operations on the Moon!
A Recently Discovered Double Binary System is Unstable. Stars Could Collide, Leading to a Supernova
A quadruple binary star system may reveal a common source of the supernovae we use to measure the cosmos.
Cosmic Rays can Help Keep the World's Clocks in Sync
The world has a robust, accurate timekeeping system that regulates our clocks. Humanity uses it for everything we do, from…
A CubeSat is Flying to the Moon to Make Sure Lunar Gateway’s Orbit is Actually Stable
To validate the Lunar Gateway's orbit around the lunar poles (a halo orbit), NASA is sending the CAPSTONE mission to…
What’s the Right Depth to Search for Life on Icy Worlds?
Are we alone? Is there life beyond Earth? These are the questions that plague the very essence of science, and…