NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Search 100 Million Stars for New Worlds
This infographic features artist’s concept views of our Milky Way galaxy: face-on at the left and edge-on at…
UH astronomy alumnus honored as outstanding young scientist
Reading time: < 1 minuteGagandeep Anand A University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) alumnus has been recognized…
Deep-space water reservoir contains trillions of times more water than all Earth’s oceans combined
A cloud of water larger than anything ever seen in space has turned up around one of the…
New analysis reveals why Ganymede has a magnetic field when other moons do not
Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to…
Strange winds reveal strongest hints yet of magnetic activity in exoplanets
Press Release 2 June 2026 A team of astronomers has found the strongest evidence yet that some planets…
Scientists listen to the ‘heart’ of our Sun – and find mysterious behaviour
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary
Hotan, A. W. et al. Australian square kilometre array pathfinder: I. System description. Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. 38,…
The two brightest planets converge in the sky in June
And while Regina, Saskatoon, and Edmonton have their longest day on the 21st, Calgary has it on the…
Astronomers can now measure newborn planet mass from dusty stellar rings
A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it…
AtLAST: The telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe
A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels.…
Mars’ atmosphere is changing how scientists see unmagnetized planets
Mars does not have Earth’s kind of magnetic shield, so it has often been treated as the solar…
Welcome to the Gas Giant Planet Where Clouds Turn to Stone
The gas giant WASP-94A b – credit, artistic interpretation by Hannah Robbins, released by Johns Hopkins University Welcome…