Astronomy
There Could Be Four Hostile Civilizations in the Milky Way
In a series of papers, amateur astronomer and exoplanet researcher Alberto Caballero narrows down who could have sent the Wow!…
How Do Hot Jupiters Get So Close to Their Stars?
In this age of exoplanet discovery, we've discovered thousands of exoplanets of different types. The hot Jupiter is one of…
A Geologic map of the Entire Moon has Been Released at 1:2,500,000-Scale
Chinese scientists have created the most detailed map of the Moon yet. It took them 10 years and involved hundreds…
The World's Largest Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), the first telescope of its kind, just came online in northern India!
Do Supermassive Black Holes Prematurely end Star Formation in Some Galaxies?
Some galaxies, like the Milky Way, have maintained regular star formation for billions of years. Others, like large elliptical galaxies,…
A New Technique Finds a Bundle of Brown Dwarfs
Astronomers have a brown dwarf problem. They should be seeing a lot more of these objects, which are cooler than…
Venus Does Have Craters. Here’s one
As most everyone knows, Venus is called Earth's twin, though its scorching temperatures and extreme surface pressure are more like…
ESA is About to Release its Third Giant Data Release From Gaia
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia Observatory is a mission dedicated to astrometry, a branch of astronomy where the velocity…
Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out
The Universe is full of massive galaxies like ours, but astronomers don't fully understand how they grew and evolved. They…
NASA has Purchased 5 More Crew Dragon Missions, Keeping the ISS Going Until 2030
To keep the International Space Station in continuous operation until 2030, NASA has ordered five more SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.