As NASA continues to make progress toward sending astronauts to the lunar South Pole region with its Artemis campaign, data from a NASA-funded study is helping scientists better understand this…
Category: Astronomy
Stunning Spiral Galaxies Seen in New James Webb Space Telescope Images
A set of highly detailed images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been publicly released. The suite of extraordinary images will provide several…
Starving Mass Monster – Technology Org
With the upgraded GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has…
An X-ray Image of Half the Universe
First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalogue of high-energy cosmic sources. X-ray astronomy has an eventful 60-year history of exploring the extremes of the universe, from…
Discovery of a Planet Too Big for Its Sun Throws Off Solar System Formation Models
The discovery of a planet that is far too massive for its sun is calling into question what was previously understood about the formation of planets and their solar systems,…
Spying for Signs of Life Among Exoplanet Atmospheres
New research suggests that the next generation of advanced telescopes could sharpen the hunt for potential extraterrestrial life by closely scrutinizing the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets. Artist’s concept showing a…
Fledgling Planets Discovered Around a Newly Formed Star
With an arsenal of advanced technology, scientists have found a multi-planet star system that provides a rare insight into how planets form and behave around a young star. This six-exoplanet…
Jupiter-sized Planet Has Big Secret: 350,000-mile-long Tail
Scientists say the discovery presents a rare opportunity to study the physics that shape thousands of other planets. WASP-69b is having a hot girl summer that never ends. The huge…
Just Because You Can Pay to Have Your Ashes Buried on the Moon Doesn’t Mean You Should
Sending human ashes and personal mementoes to the Moon is now possible, but it opens up a maze of legal and ethical conundrums. When NASA attempted to return to the…
Solar System Had 9 Planets. Maybe It Still Does?
Some of us remember August 24 2006 like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the exclusive “planets club.” I (Sara) was 11 years old, and…
