Space & Future
The solar wind is stripping oxygen and carbon away from Venus
The BepiColombo mission, a joint effort between JAXA and the ESA, was only the second (and most advanced) mission to visit Mercury, the least...
How Pluto got its mysterious heart
Pluto, once considered the ninth planet in our solar system, has intrigued scientists and the public alike with a distinct heart-shaped feature on its...
Astronomers discover the dimmest star system yet, hinting at hidden cosmic neighbors
Astronomers have stumbled upon the faintest star system ever observed, nestled within the vast expanse of the Milky Way.
This discovery may point to a...
The Milky Way’s history is written in streams of stars
The Milky Way is ancient and massive, a collection of hundreds of billions of stars, some dating back to the Universe’s early days.
During its...
Baby stars discharge “sneezes” of gas and dust
I’m really not sure what to call it but a ‘dusty sneeze’ is probably as good as anything.
We have known for some years that...
How did Pluto get its heart? Scientists suggest an answer
The most recognizable feature on Pluto is its “heart,” a relatively bright valentine-shaped area known as Tombaugh Regio.
How that heart got started is one...
Scientists unravel the mysteries of an ancient galaxy
In a remarkable discovery last September, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) uncovered an ancient, massive galaxy named JWST-ER1g.
This galaxy, found to have formed...
Space telescope probes brightest ever gamma-ray burst for cosmic secrets
In a groundbreaking study using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Penn State and an international team have investigated the brightest gamma-ray...
Neutron stars could be heating up from dark matter annihilation
One of the big mysteries about dark matter particles is whether they interact with each other. We still don’t know the exact nature of...
Astronomers discover possibly smallest galaxy near the Milky Way
In a groundbreaking achievement, astronomers from Yale University and the University of Victoria in Canada have discovered what could be the smallest and faintest...
Scientists measure winds of stars similar to our sun for the first time
For the first time ever, a team of international scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery by directly measuring the stellar winds from three stars...
The brightest gamma ray burst ever seen came from a collapsing star
After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on the Neil Gehrels Swift...
Deep Space
How to land on a planet safely?
When a lander descends toward the moon – or a rocky planet, asteroid, or comet – the exhaust plume of the rocket interacts with...
Why other discovered planets may not support life
In a new study, scientists found that most planets discovered in other solar systems are unlikely to be as hospitable to life as Earth.
The...
Early universe may be teeming with bright galaxies, finds study
The Milky Way just learned it has a bunch of much older siblings.
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that...
Science’s 2019 breakthrough of the year: The first image of a black hole
Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87.
The image...
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...