Rocky planets smaller than Earth may be too small to stay habitable
While a planet can orbit around a Sun-like star and sit comfortably within its habitable zone, it could…
Scientists Find Evidence Earth Is Drifting Through the Ashes of an Exploded Star
Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar…
Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking
look up! Asteroid 2026 JH2 is now approaching Earth; the object, which is about 20 meters (66 feet)…
Jupiter-like exoplanet helping scientists rethink how solar systems form
A planet so distant that its starlight began traveling toward Earth around the Middle Ages has given one…
Jupiter’s jet streams dive into extreme atmospheric regions
Jupiter does not sit still. Its atmosphere races around the planet in more than 20 east-west jet streams,…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang
For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the…
Scientists Uncover the Surprising Source of Strange Clouds Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers have uncovered evidence that a massive binary star near the center of the Milky Way may be…
Gravitational wave detectors can now tune themselves using black holes
Gravitational wave researchers working on the world’s most sensitive scientific instruments have found a way to tune their…
James Webb Telescope Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Cosmic Web in Stunning Detail
A slice through the COSMOS-Web cosmic-web map, showing galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history. The…
With a power of 10,000 suns, jets emitted by a black hole were measured for the first time
The universe contains many mysterious and powerful objects. This is the case for black holes, which are celestial…
Five-minute solar eclipse in WA’s north to attract thousands to ‘middle of nowhere’
Doon Doon, in Western Australia’s East Kimberley region, is a small roadhouse with a dozen transient staff and…