Brian Koberlein
Asteroid Samples Returned to Earth Were Immediately Colonized by Bacteria
There is no place you can go on Earth that hasn't been colonized by bacteria, from the bottom of the…
Fantastic New Image of the Sombrero Galaxy From Webb
You're looking at a fantastic new image of the Sombrero Galaxy captured by JWST. If you look carefully, you can…
Einstein Predicted How Gravity Should Work at the Largest Scales. And He Was Right
Researchers working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have mapped nearly 6 million galaxies across 11 billion years of the…
There was Hot Water on Mars 4.45 Billion Years Ago
Mars formed 4.5 billion years ago, roughly the same time as the Earth. We know that water was stable on…
New Supercomputer Simulation Explains How Mars Got Its Moons
One mystery in planetary science is a satisfying origin story for Mars's moons, Phobos and Deimos. Were they chunks of…
Are Fast Radio Bursts Caused by Interstellar Objects Crashing Into Neutron Stars?
Astronomers have only been aware of fast radio bursts for about two decades. These are incredibly short-lived blasts of radio…
The Large Magellanic Cloud Survived its Closest Approach to the Milky Way
The Large Magellanic Cloud is the closest, brightest dwarf galaxy to the Milky Way—20 times bigger than the full Moon…
Detecting Primordial Black Hole Mergers Might be Within Our Grasp
One explanation for dark matter is that it's made out of primordial black holes, formed in the earliest moments of…
The Best Way to Find Planet Nine Might Be Hundreds of Tiny Telescopes
Although the outer Solar System is mostly empty, there are icy objects drifting within the very limits of detection by…
A New Look a the Most Ancient Light in the Universe
About 370,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe had cooled down so light could escape, traveling for billions of…