Infrared Astronomy
NASA's Upcoming SPHEREx Mission Will map the Entire Universe in Infrared Every 6 Months
The JWST will only capture a small portion of the infrared sky. To see more, we need a satellite like…
James Webb Unfolds Sunshield
It’s almost time. Soon the James Webb Space Telescope will be on its way to the Sun/Earth L2 Lagrange point…
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…
We’re Made of Starstuff. Especially From Extremely Massive Stars
A new study shows how massive young stars create the kind of organic molecules that are necessary for life. A…
This is the Final Picture NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA has just released a mosaic of the California Nebula, which was created from the final images snapped by the…
How Did the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Get Their Water?
A new study by an international team of astronomers raises questions about the existence of debris belts around red dwarf…
Astronomers See the Wreckage from a Collision Between Exoplanets
The history of our Solar System is punctuated with collisions. Collisions helped create the terrestrial planets and end the reign…
What Will the James Webb Space Telescope See? A Whole Bunch of Dust, That’s What
When it comes to the first galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to understand the formation of those…
We May Soon Be Able To See the First, Supergiant Stars in the Universe
We need to talk about the dark ages. No, not those dark ages after the fall of the western Roman Empire.…
This Star Killed its Companion and is now Escaping the Milky Way
Our universe is capable of some truly frightening scenarios, and in this case we have an apparent tragedy: two stars,…