Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
A new study out this month suggests that Jupiter's Trojan asteroids may be more peculiar than previously thought. The Trojan…
What Are Extrasolar Planets?
For countless generations, human beings have looked out at the night sky and wondered if they were alone in the…
What’s Causing Those Landslides on Mars? Maybe Underground Salt and Melting Ice
Changes in Mar’s geography always attract significant scientific and even public attention. A hope for signs of liquid water (and…
Electrons Can Get Accelerated to Nearly the Speed of Light As They Interact With the Earth’s Magnetosphere
Electrons serve many purposes in physics. They are used by some particle accelerators and they underpin our modern world in…
Astronomers Can Predict When a Galaxy’s Star Formation Ends Based on the Shape and Size of its Disk
A galaxy's main business is star formation. And when they're young, like youth everywhere, they keep themselves busy with it.…
A New Radar Instrument Will Try To Fill the Void Left By Arecibo
Observational astronomy is dependent on its data, and therefore also dependent on the instruments that collect that data. So when…
What Looked Like Phosphine On Venus Might Actually Just Be Sulfur Dioxide
There’s nothing like a good old fashioned science fight. When the discovery being challenged is one of the most public…
Dark Energy Survey Finds Hundreds of New Gravitational Lenses
It’s relatively rare for a magical object from fantasy stories to have a analog in real life. A truly functional…
SLS Will be Tested Again in About 3 Weeks
In three weeks, NASA will be conducting its second hot fire test with the SLS. If all goes well, the…
Astronomers are now Finding Planetary Disks Around the Smallest, Least Massive Stars
Astronomers have been watching planetary systems form around sun-like stars for decades. And now, new observations with the ALMA telescope…