NASA is one step closer to deploying fission reactors on the Moon
What’s the most important thing you need to live and work on the Moon?
Power. For NASA’s upcoming Artemis program, getting power to lunar bases...
Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region...
Scientists find galaxy that shouldn’t exist
In a universe filled with stars and galaxies, a team of space scientists led by Tim Carleton from Arizona State University has stumbled upon...
Atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 system should be long gone
Trappist-1 is a fascinating exoplanetary system. Seven worlds orbiting a red dwarf star just 40 light-years away.
All of the worlds are similar to Earth...
Giant planet puzzles scientists by orbiting a tiny star
In a surprising twist to what scientists thought they knew about space, a team from Penn State University has found a planet that's way...
Asteroid Ryugu contained bonus comet particles
On December 5th, 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission successfully returned samples it had collected from the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 162173 Ryugu home.
Since asteroids are basically...
Six planets found orbiting an extremely young star
The field of exoplanet study continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
As of the penning of this article, 5,572 extrasolar planets have been confirmed...
Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars
Star-shredding black holes are everywhere in the sky if you just know how to look for them. That’s one message from a new study...
It’s a fine line between a black hole energy factory and a black hole...
Black holes are powerful gravitational engines.
So you might imagine that there must be a way to extract energy from them given the chance, and...
WASP-69b: The Jupiter-sized planet with a spectacular comet-like tail
Imagine a planet so close to its star that it's literally boiling away into space!
That's the story of WASP-69b, a gigantic planet about the...