An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the sun, a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and the Earth. Sizes are to scale, but distances are not. Credit:…
Category: Planetary Science
Scientific paper details what’s known about the third-ever interstellar object
The discovery images of 31/ATLAS. Credit: ATLAS Chile When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system,…
The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought
Credit: The Aquarius simulation, the Virgo Consortium/Dr Mark Lovell The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to…
Trump taps transport chief to be interim NASA administrator
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has been tapped to serve as interim administrator of US space agency NASA. US President Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to…
Image: Hubble captures stellar duo
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this image…
Primordial black holes could have accelerated early star formation
Hubble image of intracluster light emitted from far away galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Montes (University of New South Wales) The search for dark matter requires all the best…
Astronomers have discovered another puzzling interstellar object—this third one is big, bright and fast
Credit: Felix Mittermeier from Pexels Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025. The…
Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue
Despite brief oases, Mars was likely doomed to be a desert planet, a new study suggests. Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our…
This photo of the nearby Sculptor galaxy spans 65,000 light years
This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Credit: ESO…
