If Hycean Worlds Really Exist, What are Their Oceans Like?
Astronomers have been on the hunt for a new kind of exoplanet in recent years – one especially suited for…
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Lander Sends Faint Signal From the Moon
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander made space history today — becoming the first commercial spacecraft to survive a descent to the…
Anti-Satellite Weapons Will Threaten Everyone’s Access to Space
It’s a headline straight out of the movies yet the White House has recently confirmed it believes that Russia is…
Powerful Jets From a Black Hole are Spawning Star Clusters
Supermassive black holes are messy feeders, and when they're gorging on too much material, they can hurl high-energy jets into…
We Could Snoop on Extraterrestrial Communications Networks
SETI researchers have directed their search toward interesting star systems where extraterrestrial civilizations could send signals toward Earth. According to…
Astroscale’s Satellite is Now Chasing Down a Real Piece of Space Debris
Space debris is a thing.. It seems whether we explore the Earth or space we leave rubbish in our wake.…
Can We Survive in Space? It Might Depend on How Our Gut Microbiome Adapts
For over a century, people have dreamed of the day when humanity (as a species) would venture into space. In…
A New, More Accurate Measurement for the Clumpiness of the Universe
Cosmologists are wrestling with an interesting question: how much clumpiness does the Universe have? There are competing but not compatible…
Scientists Track How a Giant Wave Moved Through Our Galactic Backyard
Astronomers say there's a wave rippling through our galactic neighborhood that's playing a part in the birth and death of…
JWST Sees a Milky Way-Like Galaxy Coming Together in the Early Universe
The gigantic galaxies we see in the Universe today, including our own Milky Way galaxy, started out far smaller. Mergers…