A message to the stars: NASA’s creative journey to Europa
In October, NASA will embark on a captivating mission to Jupiter's moon Europa with a spacecraft named Europa Clipper.
This mission carries a unique and...
How long will advanced civilizations try to communicate with us?
Technosignature research is heating up, with plenty of papers speculating on the nature, and sometimes the longevity, of signals created by technically advanced extraterrestrial...
This galaxy was already dead when the universe was only 700 million years old
When a galaxy runs out of gas and dust, the process of star birth stops. That takes billions of years.
But, there’s a galaxy out...
Astronomers discover new moons around Uranus and Neptune
In a remarkable feat of astronomical observation, a team using some of the world's largest telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope, has discovered three new...
Webb sees a system that just finished forming its planets
Nearly 5 billion years ago a region of gas gravitationally collapsed within a vast molecular cloud.
At the center of the region, the Sun began...
Scientists find new clues about Neptune’s evolution
In the vastness beyond Neptune, a ring of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt holds clues to the formation of our solar system's...
Astronomers find the most massive pair of supermassive black holes ever seen
Supermassive black holes have been found at the heart of most galaxies but understanding how they have formed has eluded astronomers for some time.
One...
Massive stars have the power to shape solar systems
Stars shape their solar systems. It’s true of ours, and it’s true of others. But for some massive stars, their power to shape still-forming...
Astronomers can see the impact site where an asteroid crashed into a white dwarf
Nothing is immortal. Everything has a finite existence, including the stars themselves. How a star dies depends on several factors, most importantly their mass.
For...
Saturn-sized exoplanet unveiled by astronomers
The discovery of a new exoplanet, TOI-1135 b, orbiting a young, solar-type star marks another milestone in the ongoing search for alien worlds.
This intriguing...