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...
Scientists discover radiating exoplanet in “perfect tidal storm”
Can tidal forces cause an exoplanet’s surface to radiate heat?
This is what a recent study accepted to The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals a giant lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io
NASA’s Juno spacecraft came within 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io in two recent flybys.
That’s close enough to reveal...
Astronomers discover a record-breaking black hole in our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers have recently unveiled the most massive stellar black hole ever found in our Milky Way galaxy.
This enormous black hole, located just 2,000 light-years...
What’s the most effective way to explore our nearest stars
It was 1903 that the Wright brothers made the first successful self-propelled flight.
Launching themselves to history, they set the foundations for transatlantic flights, supersonic...
The giant planets migrated between 60-100 million years after the solar system formed
Untangling what happened in our Solar System tens or hundreds of millions of years ago is challenging.
Millions of objects of wildly different masses interacted...
NASA confirms that a piece of its battery pack smashed into a Florida home
NASA is in the business of launching things into orbit.
But what goes up must come down, and if whatever is coming down doesn’t burn...
Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life
My research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there.
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons – more than any other planet in the...
Ice deposits on Ceres might only be a few thousand years old
The dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice.
Astronomers thought the ice was ancient when they were discovered, like in the...
The Milky Way’s most massive stellar black hole is only 2,000 light years away
Astronomers have found the largest stellar mass black hole in the Milky Way so far.
At 33 solar masses, it dwarfs the previous record-holder, Cygnus...