Astronomers discover how mysterious free-floating planets may form
A groundbreaking study by astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a new class of "free-floating" planets, challenging previous beliefs about how...
There are four ways to build with regolith on the Moon
Over the last few years I have been renovating my home. Building on Earth seems to be a fairly well understood process, after all...
NASA’s TESS finds its first rogue planet
Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems.
One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
Astronomers...
Hubble Telescope has accidentally discovered over a thousand asteroids
The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is like a gift that keeps on giving.
Not only is it still making astronomical discoveries after more than thirty...
Will we know if TRAPPIST-1e has life?
The search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift.
With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite...
There was a doomed comet near the sun during the eclipse
A surprise appearance of a new comet made the April 8th total solar eclipse all the more memorable.
Any dedicated ‘umbraphile’ will tell you: no...
How methane could be appearing and disappearing on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has brought to light one of the most baffling discoveries on Mars—the presence of methane gas in Gale Crater.
This finding...
NASA’s Voyager 1 back in action, resumes sending data after five months
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has started sending back valuable information about its condition for the first time since November last year.
This development is a...
New study reveals the power of stellar superflares
A recent study has brought us closer to understanding the massive bursts of energy seen in stellar superflares, which are far more intense than...
James Webb Telescope spots possible aurorae on a distant brown dwarf
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made an intriguing discovery on a brown dwarf—a type of celestial object that is bigger...