LOFAR Sees Strange Radio Signals Hinting at Hidden Exoplanets
LOFAR sees ‘exoplanet aurorae’ near distant red dwarf suns.
Webb has Arrived Safely at the Launch Site
Whew! A major milestone was achieved today in the James Webb Space Telescope’s journey towards launch. After the telescope successfully…
Next Generation Telescopes Could Detect the Direct Collapse of Enormous Black Holes Near the Beginning of Time
The first black holes to appear in the universe may have formed from the direct collapse of gas. When they…
BepiColombo’s First Pictures of Mercury
BepiColombo recently had its first close flyby of Mercury, its eventual mission target, and got to snap some pictures to…
Greenland’s Ice Sheet is Similar in Many Ways to the Solar System’s Icy Worlds and Can Teach Us How to Search for Life
Many regions on Earth are temperate, nutrient-rich, stable environments where life seems to thrive effortlessly. But not all of Earth.…
The Astronauts who Would Have Tested Starliner Have Been Reassigned to an Upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
NASA has taken the two astronauts selected to test the Starliner and reassigned them to fly the fifth SpaceX Dragon…
‘Glowing’ Sand Dune Erosion on the Side of a Martian Crater
While Mars is known as the Red Planet, a variety of colors can be found on the planet’s surface. Just…
Rare Planet Found Orbiting Three Stars
It's a hat-trick! Astronomers may have spotted the first ever known planet orbiting not one, not two, but three stars.…
James Webb’s 30 Days of Terror
It’s been a long and winding road getting the James Webb Space Telescope from concept to reality. And finally, after…
Gravitational-Wave Observatories Should be Able to Detect Primordial Black Hole Mergers, if They’re out There
The tumultuous era of the big bang may have been chaotic enough to flood the universe with primordial black holes.…