Satellite launches and burn-ups are altering Earth’s atmosphere and damaging the ozone layer
The number of satellites launched into space has grown dramatically in recent years. Mega-constellations, large networks of satellites…
How Big Can a Planet Get Without Becoming a Star? JWST Data Solves 20-Year Mystery of Rule Breaking Exoplanets
One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by…
Newly Discovered Comet Could Appear During the Day—If It’s Not Destroyed First
A recently discovered comet is plunging toward a fateful encounter with the Sun, which will determine whether it…
Astronomers have discovered a collision between two neutron stars in a small galaxy
ⓘ Mikkehouse – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a neutron star. Recently, astronomers have discovered a collision between…
California Startup Wants to Send Thousands of Mirrors to Orbit For the Dumbest Reason Ever
A new startup has come up with a way to sell sunlight on demand, proposing a constellation of…
Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol
Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still…
New look at the stars around the Milky Way's centre – ESO.org
New look at the stars around the Milky Way’s centre ESO.orgAstronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the…
How to witness Venus and Saturn conjunction?
Footage released by NASA on Wednesday reveals aurora ribbons shimmering above Earth, while a thin orange line of…
Ancient Milky Way stars challenge the age of the universe and the Hubble tension
The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments.…
Forever Twilight? Satellite Mirrors Could Create Artificial Daylight From Orbit, Impeding Astronomical Observations
If a future catastrophe were to wipe out our civilization from the Earth’s surface, would there be a…
NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos…
A lunar eclipse brings a blood moon, in photos
The full moon in March, sometimes called the worm moon, coincides with a lunar eclipse that brings a…