Brian Koberlein
One Side of This White Dwarf is Covered in Hydrogen While the Other Side is Helium.
Here's a new one. Astronomers have found a white dwarf star - the dead remnant from a main sequence star…
Thin Flat Lenses Could Unleash a Revolution in Space Telescopes
Space telescopes use traditional polished mirrors like ground telescopes, which are heavy, unwieldy, and expensive to build. A new type…
Did That Message Come From Earth or Space? Now SETI Researchers can be Sure
When SETI researchers discover an intriguing radio signal, their first instinct is to ask, "Is the signal coming from Earth?"…
Your Oven Gets Hotter Than This Star
Astronomers have an ultracool star that only has a surface temperature of 425 degrees centigrade, cooler than the cleaning cycle…
Liquid Water on Rocky Planets Could be 100 Times More Likely
Astronomers previously believed that you needed a special environment for a rocky planet to have liquid oceans on its surface,…
The Universe Could Be Twice As Old if Light is Tired and Physical Constants Change
A new paper argues that the universe is 26.7 billion years old. But the model only works by assuming tired…
We've Got to Go Back to Enceladus. Here's a Mission That Could Get the Science
Saturn's moon Enceladus is one of the most promising places to look for life in the Solar System. It has…
Celebrate a Year of JWST With This Ludicrous Image of Rho Ophiuchi
It's been a year since JWST began its operations, so the people behind the telescope released a stunning new image…
Titanium Clouds Make This Exoplanet Shine Like a Mirror
ESA's Cheops mission has been studying an ultra-hot exoplanet around a nearby star and discovered its metallic clouds reflect about…
Wind Direction on Mars Changed Abruptly About 400,000 Years Ago
China's Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars, a vast plain in the northern hemisphere. Dunes surround…