What will it take to survive the lunar night
With the help of international and commercial partners, NASA is sending astronauts back to the Moon for the first time in over fifty years.
In...
Is the Milky Way… normal?
Studying the large-scale structure of our galaxy isn’t easy.
We don’t have a clear view of the Milky Way’s shape and features like we do...
The universe is brighter than we thought
Over seven years ago, the New Horizons mission made history when it became the first spacecraft to conduct a flyby of Pluto.
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, shows study
Earth has a "stabilizing feedback" mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years.
The Earth's climate has undergone big changes, from global volcanism to...
Machine learning reveals how black holes grow
As different as they may seem, black holes and Las Vegas have one thing in common:
What happens there stays there – much to the...
How to discover life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus
Surrounded by a vast ocean underneath a thick ice shell, Enceladus is a hot candidate for potentially harboring alien life.
A team of researchers...
Webb telescope sees through dust to find young stars
Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope contain telltale signs of two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth, say...
Scientists detect an exoplanet spiraling to its doom around an aging star
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an aging star.
The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer...
Astronomers may have uncovered how galaxies change their shape
Researchers may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their research.
Ever since the Hubble...
Astronomers discover clues about stellar ‘glitching’
Stars that experience structural "glitches" during their lifetimes may be more common than first thought.
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics...