NASA’s Webb telescope unravels the mystery of a dying star
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has given us a new, detailed look at the Ring Nebula, a dying star's colorful farewell 2,200 light-years away...
Is this how you get magnetars?
Imagine a living star with a magnetic field at least 100,000 times stronger than Earth’s field. That’s the strange stellar object HD 45166. Its...
This small satellite could clean up space junk in record time
What if you could build a machine that helps clean up space on a budget?
A team of students from Brown University did just that.
Their...
Watch a giant exoplanet’s 17-year journey around its star in a 10-second video
Ever wondered what it would be like to watch a planet go around its star?
A scientist has made a video that lets you do...
Neptune’s vanishing clouds linked to solar cycle, study finds
For the first time in nearly 30 years of observations, Neptune's cloud cover has dramatically decreased, and researchers think the sun's solar cycle might...
How extraterrestrial tales of aliens gain traction
One night, upon returning to the cave that his tribe calls home, the monkey-humanoid Moon-Watcher finds a strange crystal object, a kind of monolith...
Mysterious star may solve puzzle of universe’s strongest magnets
Magnetars are some of the universe's most powerful magnets.
These super-tight, dead stars have extremely strong magnetic fields and can be found throughout our galaxy.
Yet,...
Neptune’s clouds vanish, and the sun might be why
Imagine looking up and not seeing a single cloud in the sky.
Now, imagine that happening on Neptune, a planet known for its clouds!
For the...
Scientists use FAST to discover a new population of dwarf pulses
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese...
The sun gets meteor showers too, but they’re very different
The Sun dominates the Solar System in almost every way imaginable, yet much of its inner workings have been hidden from humanity.
Over the centuries,...