Category: Astronomy

A 2017 comet’s unusual acceleration explained by hydrogen outgassing from ice. In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed ‘Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public. It was the first…

The InSight mission’s seismometer, though coated by several years of Martian dust, was able to capture recordings of seismic events from the far side of the planet. NASA’s InSight Mars…

A University of Georgia research team has confirmed evidence of a previously unknown planet outside of our solar system, and they used machine learning tools to detect it. This exoplanet…

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have identified a new threat to life on planets like Earth: a phase during which intense X-rays from exploded…

For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos. From ancient civilizations such as the Babylonians, Greeks, and Egyptians to modern-day astronomers, the allure of the starry…

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument reveals evidence of mass star migration into a galaxy other than the Milky Way. Galaxies grow and evolve by forging new stars and merging with other…

Using first-of-their-kind observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, the team looked more than 13 billion years into the past to discover a unique, minuscule galaxy that generated new stars…

With a constellation of five satellites, the international LIFE initiative led by ETH Zurich hopes to one day detect traces of life on exoplanets. A laboratory experiment in the Department…