Beyond Earth: A new strategy to probe life’s potential on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Does life exist beyond Earth?
One of the most compelling places to consider this possibility is Enceladus, a moon of Saturn with a liquid water...
NASA images unlock secrets of Andromeda’s massive black hole
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has provided astronomers with fascinating images that show how the supermassive black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy,...
NASA’s TESS discovers a fiery lava-covered planet in a distant star system
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched in 2018 to explore planets beyond our solar system, has recently made a striking discovery.
UC Riverside astrophysicist...
Scientists detect atmosphere on distant rocky exoplanet
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a significant breakthrough by potentially detecting an atmosphere on 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet...
What deadly Venus can tell us about life on other worlds
Even though Venus and Earth are so-called sister planets, they’re as different as heaven and hell. Earth is a natural paradise where life has...
NASA discovers iron traces around a distant black hole
NASA and JAXA, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, have made exciting new discoveries with their joint X-ray mission, XRISM, which is investigating the cosmos...
Hubble telescope captures stunning image of galaxy with active black hole
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has given us a breathtaking view of NGC 4951, a galaxy located in the Virgo constellation about 50 million...
Scientists unravel Jupiter’s magnetic mysteries to enhance Earth’s space weather forecasts
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have made groundbreaking discoveries about Jupiter, which could not only shed light on the largest planet in...
Fall into a black hole with this new NASA simulation
No human being will ever encounter a black hole. But we can’t stop wondering what it would be like to fall into one of...
Scientists unlock the mysteries of ancient quasars and their galactic hosts
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an exciting breakthrough by capturing the faint starlight from galaxies hosting some of the...