Galactic archaeologists find stars in the Milky Way came from another galaxy 12 billion years ago
Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across…
Massive Exoplanets Could Form Around Supermassive Black Holes
You’ve read it, heard it in casual conversations, and seen it in TV shows and movies: black holes…
The JWST Little Red Dots Could Be ‘Black Hole Stars’
The early Universe’s Little Red Dots (LRD) could be the JWST’s strangest discovery. LRDs are small, red, astronomical…
NASA Challenge Tests Wheel Designs for Moon Base Mobility
As NASA prepares to establish the Moon Base, advancing surface mobility will be key to helping crews and robotic systems travel farther…
SpaceX Closes In on $150 as 2 Rockets Launch Back-to-Back
Quick Read SpaceX (SPCX) crushed Q2 estimates by 15%, delivering $7.8B in revenue on 92% year-over-year growth as…
JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune’s tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today’s moons may be rubble from Neptune’s original satellite system, destroyed when the captured moon Triton tore through it billions of years ago.
The clay is the clue. Larissa and Galatea are two small, dark moons tucked close to Neptune, where…
Astronomers discover a black hole pretending to be a star
Astronomers have identified what they believe is an entirely new kind of astrophysical object: a “black hole star.”…
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Discovers the Martian moon Phobos
On Aug. 17, 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars’s moon Phobos. Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of…
A ‘river’ of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent planets in the Orion constellation into tilted orbits
A rare planet-forming disk around a young triple-star system in the Orion constellation has been tipped over by…
SpaceX closes $60bn acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has completed its $60bn acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor, a deal the company has…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 1: The Atmospheric Fingerprint
In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, then six billion kilometers from Earth and destined to become humanity’s most…
Webb captures two baby stars growing inside a dusty cloud
Webb offers a rare look at how two young stars gather material, release powerful outflows, and slowly grow…