Chrysalis: Saturn’s Ancient, Missing Moon
Saturn’s Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon According to a new study, a “grazing encounter” may have smashed the…
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Surprising New Features of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Defy Current Understanding
Fast Radio Bursts – A Puzzling and Deepening Mystery An international team of scientists reveals an evolving, magnetized environment and surprising source location for deep-space…
“Mind-Blowing” Hot Gas Bubble Detected Zipping Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Incredible New Webb Telescope Image of Neptune Captures Never Seen Ring Details
Webb Space Telescope Infrared Observations Tease Out Never Seen Atmospheric and Ring Details At an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from…
Mars Is Mighty: First Webb Space Telescope Images of Red Planet
On September 5, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of Mars. The powerful telescope provides a unique perspective with its…
Astronomers Uncover New Evidence of Baby Planet in the Making
A new technique has been developed by astronomers to identify small planets hidden in protoplanetary disks. According to astronomers and astrophysicists, planets are born in…
MIT Warns: Astronomers Risk Misinterpreting Planetary Signals in Webb Space Telescope Data
Refining current opacity models will be key to extracting details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new…
Surprise Finding: “Water Worlds” May Be More Common Than We Thought
New analysis finds evidence for many exoplanets made of water and rock around small stars. Water is the one thing all life on Earth requires….
New Mathematical Model Provides Method for Landing Humans on Mars
This model may serve as the basis for future investigation into how well the human cardiovascular system can tolerate prolonged space travel and life on…
Astronomers “Blown Away” by First Breathtaking Webb Space Telescope Images of Orion Nebula
New Webb pictures reveal spectacular view of Orion Nebula James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has again demonstrated its incredible power by capturing the most detailed…
Setting the Clock on a Supernova – Stellar Explosion Just Hundreds of Years Ago in Earth’s Timeframe
A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years ago in Earth’s timeframe. The explosion of a…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Finds Window Into Early Universe
Astronomers Find Spiraling Stars May Be Feeding Star Formation in a Nearby Stellar Nursery Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet researchers still…
Astronomers Discover Two “Super-Earth” Planets About 100 Light-Years Away
Astronomers Discover Two New Temperate Rocky Worlds An international research team has just announced the discovery of two “super-Earth” planets orbiting LP 890-9, a small,…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Captures a Cosmic Tarantula
A New Story of Star Formation Unfolds NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope presents a new perspective on the Tarantula Nebula, or 30 Doradus, a region…
“Solar Clock” Can Predict Dangerous Solar Flares Years in Advance
Important solar cycle landmarks that are influenced by variations in the sun’s magnetic field might predict changes in weather patterns and risks to telecommunications. We…
“Space Treasure” – Webb Captures Its First-Ever Direct Image of a Distant World
For the first time ever, astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Quasar
What Is a Quasar? A quasar is an extremely active and luminous type of active galactic nucleus (AGN). While all quasars are AGNs, not all…
Simple Simulation Accidentally Leads to Mysterious X-Shaped Galaxy for First Time
X-Shaped Radio Galaxies Might Form More Simply Than Expected When astronomers gaze into the night sky using radio telescopes, they often see elliptical-shaped galaxies, with…
