Kepler’s 1607 sunspot sketches unlock solar secrets 400 years later
Using modern techniques, researchers have revisited Johannes Kepler's nearly forgotten sunspot drawings and uncovered new information about solar cycles before the grand solar minimum.
An...
Now Uranus’ moon Ariel might have an ocean too
Venus is known for being really quite inhospitable with high surface temperatures and Mars is known for its rusty red horizons.
Even the moons of...
Why is Webb Telescope having so much trouble with the TRAPPIST-1 system
When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched it came with a fanfare expecting amazing things, much like the Hubble Space Telescope.
One of JWST’s...
What lunar caves tell us about the shared origins of the Earth and the...
Using radar, a Nasa spacecraft, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence of caves beneath the lunar surface.
Here's why such geological features will...
Cracking the dark matter mystery: Using galaxy clusters as cosmic colliders
What is dark matter?
Even astrophysicists are still trying to answer this question. Dark matter makes up most of the matter in the universe and...
Dark matter races ahead in massive galaxy collision
Scientists have observed an incredible cosmic event where dark matter and normal matter separate during a massive collision between two galaxy clusters.
This event, located...
Mars Curiosity drives over a rock, cracking it open and revealing an amazing yellow...
On May 30th, the Mars Curiosity rover was just minding its own business exploring Gediz Vallis when it ran over a rock.
Its wheel cracked...
The ultraviolet habitable zone sets a time limit on the formation of life
The field of extrasolar planet studies has grown exponentially in the past twenty years.
Thanks to missions like Kepler, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS),...
Moon dust could contaminate lunar explorers’ water supply
Water purification is a big business on Earth. Companies offer everything from desalination to providing just the right pH level for drinking water.
But on...
How dark matter helps supermassive black holes merge
Researchers have discovered a fascinating connection between supermassive black holes and dark matter particles that might solve a longstanding puzzle in astronomy.
This new finding...