Our Milky Way galaxy’s mysterious filaments have ‘older, distant cousins’
Astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and puzzled by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling in the center of the Milky...
Mars was covered by a 300-meter-deep ocean 4.5 billion years ago
When Mars was a young planet, it was bombarded by ice asteroids delivering water and organic molecules necessary for life to emerge.
This means...
Bright light from early universe ‘opens new chapter in astronomy’
The researchers found two exceptionally bright galaxies that existed approximately 350 and 450 million years after the big bang.
What would asteroid mining do to the world’s economy
About a decade ago, the prospect of “asteroid mining” saw a massive surge in interest.
The X-37B is back after 908 days in orbit. What was it doing up...
At 5:22 AM Eastern Time on November 12, the Space Force’s (and Air Force’s) X-37B spaceplane landed back on Earth after two and a...
Stars and planets grow up together, reveals white dwarfs
A study of the oldest stars suggests the building blocks of planets like Jupiter and Saturn begin to form while a young star is growing.
Will Neptune’s largest moon Triton finally answer, ‘Are we alone’?
We recently examined how and why Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could answer the longstanding question: Are we alone?
With its interior ocean and geysers of...
Black holes don’t always power gamma-ray bursts, shows study
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected by satellites orbiting Earth as luminous flashes of the most energetic gamma-ray radiation lasting milliseconds to hundreds of seconds.
This nearby dwarf galaxy has been a loner for almost the entire age of...
The James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Science (ERS) program – first released on July 12th, 2022 – has proven to be a treasure...
Star death reveals a midsize black hole lurking in a dwarf galaxy
An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too...