Titan’s hidden ocean: unlikely to harbor life
In a recent study led by Catherine Neish, a researcher with a background in studying planets and life in space, it was discovered that...
James Webb Space Telescope unveils secrets of a nearby cold brown dwarf
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space telescope ever built, has recently provided astronomers with a closer look at a fascinating...
Saturn’s “death star moon” Mimas probably has an ocean too
A recent study published in Nature presents a groundbreaking discovery that Saturn’s moon, Mimas, commonly known as the “Death Star” moon due to its...
Radio telescope confirms free-floating binary planets in the Orion Nebula
Planets orbit stars. That’s axiomatic.
Or at least it was until astronomers started finding rogue planets, also called free-floating planets (FFPs). Some of these planets...
Passing stars changed the orbits of planets in the solar system
The orbit of Earth around the Sun is always changing.
It doesn’t change significantly from year to year, but over time the gravitational tugs of...
Ancient galaxy shakes up dark matter theory
In a recent groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have observed a massive galaxy from over 11 billion years ago, hosting stars far older than theories of...
Cosmic dust could spread life from world to world across the galaxy
Does life appear independently on different planets in the galaxy? Or does it spread from world to world? Or does it do both?
New research...
Dying stars could have completely new habitable zones
Aging stars that become red giants increase their luminosity and can wreak havoc on planets that were once in the star’s habitable zones.
When the...
Exploring galaxies beyond expectations: A new look at the cosmos
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sent back images from the far reaches of the universe, it shared a surprise with the world:...
Scientists develop new ellipsoid technique to search extraterrestrial signals
In an exciting leap forward for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), a collaborative team from the SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center, and...