That’s No Planet. Detecting Transiting Megastructures
One of the easiest ways to find exoplanets is using the transit method. It relies upon monitoring the brightness of…
A Single Robot Could Provide a Mission To Mars With Enough Water and Oxygen
Utilizing regolith on the Moon or Mars, especially to refill propellant for rockets to get back off the surface, is…
Webb Sees Globular Clusters Forming in the Early Universe
Picture the Universe's ancient beginnings. In the vast darkness, light was emitted from a particular galaxy only 460 million years…
Fly Through the Pillars of Creation in this New Visualisation Made from Webb and Hubble Data
I remember April 1995 very well. It was the month that the stunning and iconic image that has been called…
Black Hole Bullies Shut Down Star Formation in Their Galaxies
A supermassive black hole in the heart of a galaxy is the ultimate 800-pound gorilla of astrophysics. Not only do…
Can We Use An Asteroid’s Own Dust to Deflect It?
Deflecting potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) is one of humanity's most critical long-term efforts to ensure we don't suffer the fate…
How Commercial Satellites Could Track Spy Balloons and Other UFOs
It turns out that you don't need the Men in Black to spot unidentified anomalous phenomena, which are also known…
Saturn’s Energy is Out of Balance
Earth releases about as much energy out into space as it absorbs, arriving at a thermal equilibrium. This means it…
Another Strike Against Primordial Black Holes as an Explanation for Dark Matter
The quest to understand dark matter has taken many twists and turns. It's a scientific tale but also a human…
Do We Now Have an Accurate Map of Nearby Stars?
If the Sun has a stellar neighbourhood, it can be usefully defined as a 20 parsec (65 light-years) sphere centred…