Dwarf galaxies banished the darkness and lit up the early universe
During the Universe’s Dark Ages, dense primordial gas absorbed and scattered light, prohibiting it from travelling.
Only when the first stars and galaxies began to...
NASA’s Ingenuity won’t fly again because it’s missing a rotor blade
Ingenuity has been the first aerial vehicle on another world.
NASA announced the end of the Martian helicopter’s life at the end of its 72nd...
New moons found at Uranus and Neptune
Astronomers have found three new moons orbiting our Solar System’s ice giants. One is orbiting Uranus, and two are orbiting Neptune.
It took hard work...
A black hole discovery could force us to rethink how galaxies came to be
Peering deep into the infancy of the universe, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently confirmed the discovery of the brightest and fastest...
Some intelligent civilizations will be trapped on their worlds
Evolution has produced a wondrously diverse variety of lifeforms here on Earth.
It just so happens that talking primates with opposable thumbs rose to the...
Planets in binary star systems could be nice and habitable
The Star Wars world Tatooine is one of the most recognizable planets in the realm of science fiction.
It’s a harsh place, and its conditions...
The Kuiper Belt is much bigger than we thought
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is just over 8.8 billion km away, exploring the Kuiper Belt. This icy belt surrounds the Sun but it seems...
If exoplanets have lightning, it’ll complicate the search for life
Discovering exoplanets is almost routine now.
We’ve found over 5,500 exoplanets, and the next step is to study their atmospheres and look for biosignatures.
The James...
Astronomers discover a deeply red supermassive black hole growing secretly in the early universe
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a marvel of modern astronomy, has been a game-changer in our quest to understand the universe's infancy.
Among its...
First solid proof of neutron star leftover from supernova discovered by astronomers
In 1987, astronomers witnessed a stellar explosion, Supernova 1987A, lighting up the skies from a distant galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This event marked the...