Finally, an Explanation for the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background
A new study by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has confirmed the existence of a Supervoid, which could explain how…
5,000 Exoplanets!
Before NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission launched in 2018, astronomers tried to understand what it would find in…
Incredible Image Shows Twin Stellar Jets Blasting Out of a Star-Forming Region
Young stars go through a lot as they're being born. They sometimes emit jets of ionized gas called MHOs—Molecular Hydrogen…
Missing Mass? Not on our Watch—Dr. Paul Sutter Explains Dark Matter
In the first episode of a new series with ArsTechnica - Edge of Knowledge - Dr. Paul Sutter explains the…
Webb Has Arrived Successfully at L2
It’s really happening. The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully reached its orbital destination in space, 1.5 million km (1…
A Private Mission to Scan the Cloud Tops of Venus for Evidence of Life
The search for life on Venus has a fascinating history. Carl Sagan famously and sarcastically said there were obviously dinosaurs…
13 Rovers Recently Competed to Scour the (Simulated) Moon to Harvest Resources
Challenges are one way to encourage innovation. They’ve been leveraged by numerous space and non-space research organizations in the last…
It’s Been Constantly Raining Meteors on Mars for 600 Million Years. Earth too.
New research shows that Mars has faced a constant rain of meteors during the last 600 million years. This finding…
ESA’s ARIEL Mission Will Study the Atmospheres of More Than 1,000 Exoplanets
We found our first exoplanets orbiting a pulsar in 1992. Since then, we've discovered many thousands more. Those were the…
Remembering NASA Engineer Jerry Woodfill, the Inspiration Behind “13 Things That Saved Apollo 13”
Jerry Woodfill, an engineer who worked diligently behind the scenes during NASA’s Apollo program, has passed away at age 79.…