Lava Tubes and Water Frost Found on Mars Offer Double Opportunity in Search for Life
Yet more evidence for liquid water on Mars has been uncovered by a European space probe in the form…
Tag: Astronomy
This Tiny Moon of Saturn Is the Smallest Case of a Subsurface Ocean Ever Found in the Solar System
It’s been known for a decade that Saturn’s icy moon of Enceladus almost certainly hides a subsurface ocean beneath…
Locked in a 4 Billion-Year-Old Dance, Six New Exoplanets Demonstrate the Cosmic Beauty of ‘Resonant Orbits’
Scientists have discovered 6 exoplanets orbiting in perfect resonance around a star, meaning their orbits are synchronized. Such a…
Webb Detects Water Vapor Just Hanging Out in Space in a Fascinating Star’s Goldilocks Zone
In a fascinating star system 370 light-years from Earth, scientists studying with the James Webb Space Telescope have found…
More Space Telescopes: Nancy Grace Roman to Search For Dark Matter and Exoplanets in 2027
Story at a glance… The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was just awarded its launch contract. Set to debut…
Tomorrow the James Webb Telescope Will Show the World What It Can Do
In just over 24 hours, the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images will be shown to the public. On…
The Solar System May Have Had Dozens More Planets if a Young Jupiter Hadn’t Swallowed Them
A new study examining never-before-used gravitational data on Jupiter confirmed that the mass of heavy metals under the planet’s…
Here’s What the James Webb Telescope Will Look at First When Operational In Late June
PICTURED: Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. PC: ILLUSTRATION:…
Pentagon Blocked Release of Data a Study Needed to Prove the First Identified Interstellar Object
In 2014, an object around 1.5 feet across came screaming into the skies above Papua New Guinea before blowing…
Inside SPHEREx, NASA’s New Space Telescope that Will Map the Whole Universe Four Times
PICTURED: The soon-to-launch SPHEREx space observatory. PC: Caltech. Story at a glance… A telescope that will map the entire…
Science Marks Milestone of 5,000th Exoplanet Discovered
Story at a glance… 5,000 planets outside of our solar system have been discovered. The science has advanced rapidly…
Are We About to Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Merger?
PICTURED: Edited Hubble Space Telescope montage (created by NASA) of various galaxies with growing black holes due to collisions…
2022 Space Missions: A New Space Station, Moon Mining, A Mars Rover and Webb’s Debut
Exponential growth in the public and private space sectors are increasing the number of launches yearly, and 2022 promises…
Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Nears Launch Date: Promises to Unravel Deepest Secrets of the Universe
PICTURED: The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures that fold up around…
What Are the Other ‘Earths’ in the Galaxy Like? Could They Ever Be a New Home?
Story at a glance… Since 2014, multiple Earth-like planets have been discovered in our galaxy. While too far to…
Perseverance Rover Drills Up Nothing: Why?
PICTURED: An image taken by the rover of the borehole made in the recent failed extraction. PC: NASA/JPL-Caltech. MARS.…
Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb Launches The Galileo Project to Search for Alien Technology Under Our Noses
PICTURED: The mammoth LSST Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. PC: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA. Story at a glance… Suggesting…
Super Telescope Captures Images of a Plasma Jet Emitting from Black Hole at 16-Times Greater Resolution
PICTURED: Four observations of Centaurus A taken and rendered by the ESA. PC: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; optical: Rolf Olsen; infrared:…
No Life in Venus’ Clouds, Maybe in Jupiter’s?
PICTURED: An image of Venus showing the clouds, taken by the ultraviolet imager of the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki,…
Harvard Astronomer Publishes Book on Extraterrestrials After Famous 2017 Oumuamua Paper
In 2017, our solar system was visited by a strange object whose origin lay far beyond the reach of…