Astronomy
Colliding Neutron Stars Don’t Make Enough Gold to Explain What We See in the Universe
Much of the gold we find on Earth was created by colliding neutron stars, but astronomers now know gold must…
Check Out How Big the Planets and the Moon Will be in Our Sky Over the Next Two Years
Everything in space is moving. Galaxies collide and merge, massive clouds of gas migrate, and asteroids, comets, and rogue planets…
Missions Are Already Being Planned to Figure Out What’s Creating the Biosignature on Venus
The discovery of phosphine in the upper clouds in Venus' atmosphere has generated a lot of excitement. On Earth, phosphine…
Uranus’ Moons are Surprisingly Similar to Dwarf Planets in the Kuiper Belt
Astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus—and two of its moons—230 years ago. Now a group of astronomers working with data from…
Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus
Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized…
The Milky Way is Already Starting to Digest the Magellanic Clouds, Starting With Their Protective Halos of Hot Gas
Massive galaxies like our Milky Way gain mass by absorbing smaller galaxies. The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic…
Extreme galaxies depend on extreme conditions for their formation
Some galaxies are too small, and some galaxies are too big, while others are just right. A new survey of…
A beautiful picture of Saturn’s heavily-cratered moon Mimas, processed by @kevinmgill
The Cassini mission to Saturn took many images of Mimas, one of the smallest moons in the solar system. And…
Did Scientists Just Find Signs of Life on Venus?
A team of scientists has just published a paper announcing their discovery of a peculiar chemical in the cloudtops of…
Australian Telescope Just Scanned 10 million Stars For Any Sign of Extraterrestrial Signals. No sign.
One of the most important results of science is the negative result. If something doesn’t work or a hypothesis is…