A New Study Shows How our Sun Could Permantly Capture Rogue Planets!
Interest in interstellar objects (ISOs) was ignited in 2017 when 'Oumuamua flew through our Solar System and made a flyby…
This Binary Asteroid is Messed Up. It’s Probably Earth’s Fault
Space is big, really big! Finding new asteroids which are usually dark against the inky blackness of space is harder…
Starliner Successfully Fires its Thrusters, Preparing to Return to Earth
Being trapped in space sounds like the stuff of nightmares. Astronauts on board the International Space Station have on occasion,…
Astronomers Uncover New Details in the Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Detected
In October 2022, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected an extraordinarily powerful Gamma Ray…
Predicting Solar Storms Before They Leave the Sun
When giant solar storms hit Earth, they trigger beautiful auroral displays high in Earth's atmosphere. There's a dark side to…
How to SUPPPPRESS Light From a Star That Is Ten Billion Times Brighter Than Its Habitable Exoplanet
Searching for Earth 2.0 has been an obsession of almost all exoplanet hunters since the discipline's dawn a few decades…
Space Debris From Every Angle
Near-Earth space is an orbiting junkyard of space debris. Everything from old rocket parts and pieces of dead satellites to…
A Surprising Source of Oxygen in the Deep Sea
I have always found Mariana’s Trench fascinating, it’s like an alien world right on our doorstep. Any visitor to the…
When Earth Danced with Polar Moons
The origins of the Moon have been the cause of many a scientific debate over the years but more recently…
No Merger Needed: A Rotating Ring of Gas Creates A Hyperluminous Galaxy
Some galaxies experience rapid star formation hundreds or even thousands of times greater than the Milky Way. Astronomers think that…