Astronomy
We Now Have a 3D Map of The 525 Closest Brown Dwarfs
Zooniverse brings out the best of the internet - it leverages the skills of average people to perform scientific feats…
Exoplanetary System Found With 6 Worlds in Orbital Resonance
200 light-years away from Earth, there's a K-type main-sequence star named TOI (TESS Object of Interest) 178. When Adrian Leleu,…
Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of Biosphere 2 Inspired SAM²
Guided by the lessons of Biosphere 2 experiments, a team of experts is launching the Space Analog for the Moon…
Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn’t Have any Clouds
Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn't easy since Jupiter's latitudinal cloud bands and its…
Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Astronomical Surprise
A new process highlights an innovative way to get old sky images online… and turned up a potential extra-galactic discovery…
Galileo’s Probe Discovered a Mystery at Jupiter, Juno Finally Helped Solve it
In 1995, NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter and found it to be far drier…
You Know it’s Spring on Mars When the Carbon Dioxide is Starting to Sublimate
The northern hemisphere of Mars is beginning to thaw from winter. But for the red planet, that doesn't mean that…
One of the Oldest Stars in the Galaxy has a Planet. Rocky Planets Were Forming at Nearly the Beginning of the Universe
Would it be surprising to find a rocky planet that dates back to the very early Universe? It should be.…
A Cubesat Will Test out Water as a Propulsion System
Novel propulsion systems for CubeSats have been on an innovative tear of late. UT has reported on propulsion systems that…
Away From the Light Pollution of the Inner Solar System, New Horizons was Able to see how Dark the Universe Really is
Just how dark is the universe, anyway? It's a pretty hard thing to measure when we're sitting this close to…