NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava WorldÂ
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a…
NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…
From merging monsters to planet on a death wish, biggest space discoveries of 2025
Saturn, the planet with gigantic rings, added 128 new moons, taking its tally to 274, more than double…
Europa Clipper captures an impressive image of Uranus at more than 3.2 billion kilometers
Artist’s illustration showing Uranus with its rings. (Image source: 95C – Pixabay) The Europa Clipper probe recently captured…
Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection
Kouloumvakos, A. et al. Properties of solar energetic particle events inferred from their associated radio emission. Astron. Astrophys.…
4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
Dying old stars destroy their planets, new research shows
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a dying star engulfing a planet. A new study from researchers at…
James Webb Mapped the Chaotic Weather of a Planet Drifting Alone Through Space and It’s Even Wilder Than Jupiter
Artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Credit: Anastasiia Nahurna. Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a…
Ingredients for finding the origins of life
Our approach is not simply to look for life or extraterrestrials. It is a more global process with…
NASA confirms over 5,000 exoplanets
NASA announced a scientific high point as more than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond the solar…
Astronomers uncover Earth-sized planets in a compact binary system
When the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) scanned a faint red-dwarf pair in 2019, astronomers noticed periodic dips…
Super-Earth 18 light-years away sparks hope for life in space
View larger. | Artist’s concept of GJ 251 c, a potentially habitable world, a super-Earth type exoplanet only…