Scientists discover a ghostly galaxy with James Webb Space Telescope
In a remarkable turn of events, astronomers have rediscovered a galaxy that was once visible, then seemingly disappeared, and has now been spotted again...
Scientists find rocky planet can form in harsh space environments
A team of international astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb).
For the first time, they've...
Should we send humans to Venus
NASA is preparing to send humans back to the Moon with the Artemis missions in the next few years as part of the agency’s...
A gamma-ray burst disturbed the earth’s ionosphere
You’d think that something happening billions of light-years away wouldn’t affect Earth, right?
Well, in 2002, a burst of gamma rays lasting 800 seconds actually...
Could life exist in molecular clouds?
Our search for life beyond Earth is still in its infancy.
We’re focused on Mars and, to a lesser extent, ocean moons like Jupiter’s Europa...
Spider pulsars are tearing apart stars in the omega cluster
Pulsars are extreme objects. They’re what’s left over when a massive star collapses on itself and explodes as a supernova.
This creates a neutron star.
Neutron...
It doesn’t take much to get tilted planets
Chinese and Indian astronomers were the first to measure Earth’s axial tilt accurately, and they did it about 3,000 years ago.
Their measurements were remarkably...
Why don’t we see robotic civilizations rapidly expanding across the universe
In 1950, while sitting down to lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos Laboratory, famed physicist and nuclear scientist Enrico Fermi asked his famous...
Astronomers find ‘tilted’ planets even in pristine solar systems
Scientists have long puzzled over why all of the planets in Earth’s solar system have slightly slanted orbits around the sun.
But a new, Yale-led...
Vampire stars get help from a third star to feed
Some stars are stuck in bad binary relationships.
A massive primary star feeds on its smaller companion, sucking gas from the companion and adding it...