Astronomy
NASA Announces the Discovery of Water in the Sunlit Parts of the Moon
A new study, based on SOFIA data, has found that water can exist in sunlit areas on the Moon, not…
Galaxies Grew Quickly and Early On in the Universe
The behaviour of galaxies in the early Universe attracts a lot of attention from researchers. In fact, everything about the…
NASA releases new spooky space-themed posters about extreme places in the Universe
One of six new spooky posters from NASA's Galaxy of Horrors. Credit NASA-JPL/Caltech While ghouls and goblins may provide the…
New Simulation Shows Exactly What’s Happening as Neutron Stars Merge
Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that explode as supernovae at the end of their fusion lives. They're…
The Youngest Stellar Disk Ever Seen, Just 500,000 Years Old
Unless you’re reading this in an aircraft or the International Space Station, then you’re currently residing on the surface of…
Astronomers are ready and waiting to detect the neutrino blast from a nearby supernova explosion like Betelgeuse
When giant stars die in impressive supernova blasts, about 99% of the energy released goes into producing a flood of…
Astronomers Map Out the Raw Material for New Star Formation in the Milky Way
A team of researchers has discovered a complex network of filamentary structures in the Milky Way. The structures are made…
Astronomers Find the Hollowed-Out Shell of a Dwarf Galaxy that Collided With the Milky Way Billions of Years Ago
In 2005 astronomers found a dense grouping of stars in the Virgo constellation. It looked like a star cluster, except…
Tales of Two Fall Comets: 88P Howell and M3 ATLAS
Two more comets worth scouting the sky for into November 2020.