Space telescope probes brightest ever gamma-ray burst for cosmic secrets
In a groundbreaking study using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Penn State and an international team have investigated the brightest gamma-ray...
Neutron stars could be heating up from dark matter annihilation
One of the big mysteries about dark matter particles is whether they interact with each other. We still don’t know the exact nature of...
Astronomers discover possibly smallest galaxy near the Milky Way
In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers from Yale University and the University of Victoria in Canada have discovered what could be the smallest and faintest...
Scientists measure winds of stars similar to our sun for the first time
For the first time ever, a team of international scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery by directly measuring the stellar winds from three stars...
The brightest gamma ray burst ever seen came from a collapsing star
After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on the Neil Gehrels Swift...
NASA is building an electrodynamic shield to deal with all that dust on the...
Exploration of the Moon or other dusty environments comes with challenges. The lunar surface is covered in material known as regolith and its a...
Did an ancient icy impactor create the Martian moons
The Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are oddballs.
While other Solar System moons are round, Mars’ moons are misshapen and lumpy like potatoes.
They’re more like...
NASA’s next solar sail is about to go to space
Everyone knows that solar energy is free and almost limitless here on Earth. The same is true for spacecraft operating in the inner Solar...
1 ice grain from Jupiter’s moon may be enough to find signs of life,...
Scientists are buzzing with excitement over a new discovery that could make finding signs of life on distant moons a lot easier than we...
Here’s the Total Solar Eclipse, seen from space
On Monday, April 8th, people across North America witnessed a rare celestial event known as a total solar eclipse.
This phenomenon occurs when the Moon...