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…
Category: Planetary Science
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…
Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in X-ray binary SXP31.0
Smoothed dynamic power spectrum (top) and light curve (bottom) of NuObs1 in the 3–79 keV energy band. The light curve is binned with a 100 s time resolution. The dynamic power spectrum…
Peering into a starburst galaxy with JWST
This is the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month. The powerful infrared space telescope captured this image of the Cigar Galaxy (M82) with its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).…
AI-powered ChronoFlow uses stellar rotation rates to estimate stars’ ages
The MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this colorful view of the bright star cluster NGC 3532. Some of the stars still shine with a…
