Bad News And Good News: Hycean Worlds Aren’t Real, But Earth’s Water Isn’t Unusual
K2-18b is a sub-Neptune about 124 light-years away from Earth first detected in 2015. Follow-up research found water…
Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time
An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake.…
Where are all the ‘hot Neptune’ exoplanets? Orbital chaos may have booted them out
Astronomers have launched a new program known as ATREIDES to study a mysterious “desert” in space. But unlike…
From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II – NASA (.gov)
From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II NASA (.gov)NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Ready to Fly…
‘It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.’ Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes
Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star —…
NASA’s Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations
Both Psyche and Earth are moving through space at tremendous speeds, and they are so distant from each…
Rock the cosmos: An asteroid trivia quiz
Space is vast, mysterious, and full of surprises — but few celestial objects capture our imagination quite like…
First black hole ever imaged has changed ‘dramatically’ in just 4 years, new study finds
One of the first black holes ever imaged is even stranger than we thought, new images of its…
James Webb telescope uncovers massive rogue planets building their own planetary systems
The universe is full of surprises, but this one might just rewrite our cosmic neighborhood rules. Imagine planets…
Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Black Hole
In 2019, scientists unveiled the first-ever images of a black hole, M87*. Those observations kickstarted a wave of…
Astronomers in shock—discover exoplanet YSES-1c covered by a veil of mineral dust that should never exist
The YSES-1c exoplanet has surprised the science community because it is covered with a layer of mineral dust,…
NASA Mission to Map Sun’s Protective Bubble Could Help Better Predict Dangerous Space Weather
The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space.…