Astronomy
The Aftermath of a Neutron Star Collision Resembles the Conditions in the Early Universe
Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of matter into a small…
Amazing Reader Views of Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS From Around the World
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survived perihelion to become a fine dusk object for northern hemisphere observers.
Astronomers Discover Potential New Building Block of Organic Matter in Interstellar Space
Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of all dry biomass. When…
Death of a Comet: S1 Didn’t Survive its Sungrazing Plummet
Sungrazer C/2024 S1 ATLAS breaks apart at perihelion.
Did Some of Earth’s Water Come from the Solar Wind?
The source of Earth's water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad…
Building Bricks out of Lunar Regolith
It was 1969 that humans first set foot on the Moon. Now, over 50 years later we are setting sights…
The Webb Discovers a Rich Population of Brown Dwarfs Outside the Milky Way
This stunning image of a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is more than just a pretty picture.…
Neutron Stars May be Shrouded in Extremely Light Particles Called Axions
Since the 1960s, astronomers have theorized that the Universe may be filled with a mysterious mass that only interacts with…
New Research Reveals Provides Insight into Mysterious Features on Airless Worlds
Between 2011 and 2018, NASA's Dawn mission conducted extended observations of Ceres and Vesta, the largest bodies in the Main…
China’s ‘Thousand Sails’ Joins Starlink as the Latest Mega-Satellite Constellation in Orbit
With 'Thousand Sails,' China joins the race to fill up Low Earth Orbit with mega-satellite constellations.