NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild
Have you ever turned to look at something at the exact moment something unbelievably cool happened? Imagine if…
Where are the top places for stargazing and starbathing in Europe?
As of March 2026, more than 200 locations in 22 countries across the world have been certified as…
African Telescopes Are Driving Frontier Space Discoveries
After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT…
Enrichment by the first stars in a relic dwarf galaxy
Flaugher, B. et al. The dark energy camera. Astron. J. 150, 150 (2015). Article ADS Google Scholar Beers,…
Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows
Early Earth was a brutally hot, volcanically active, radiation-bathed wasteland. Somehow amid this hostility, the necessary ingredients for…
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Extraction and purification of organic molecules from samples The Ryugu A0480 (11.9 mg) and C0370 (8.3 mg) aggregate samples were…
Researchers detect dry ice in a planetary nebula for the first time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers observed dry ice inside a complex planetary nebula known as…
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…
South Africa Deploys AI to Automate Telescope Operations and Space Discovery
South Africa’s SAAO and the U.K.’s Hartree Centre launched the “Intelligent Observatory” program.
The project will…
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…