Outer Planets
Out-of-this-world ice geysers on Saturn’s Enceladus
Centuries later, NASA's Cassini-Huygens (Cassini) probe carried the exploration of Saturn even further.
Stellar Chemistry
Water signature detected in interstellar comet 3I ATLAS by Swift
Swift's vantage point above Earth's atmosphere enabled ultraviolet measurements that ground telescopes cannot make.
Stellar Chemistry
Digital revolution brings new clarity to direct exoplanet imaging with PLACID’s liquid crystal optics
Developed by researchers at the University of Bern and the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Yverdon (HEIG-VD), PLACID will join a select group of high-contrast imaging systems in the northern hemisphere.
About Us
Jane Goodall’s final wish: blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space
In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, said she'd gladly send Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Benjamin Netanyahu off the planet in a SpaceX rocket.
Outer Planets
3 Questions: How a new mission to Uranus could be just around the corner
The National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Survey published a recommendation in 2022 outlining exploration of Uranus as its highest-priority flagship mission.
Venusian Heat
Venus radar study reveals vast underground lava cave
The study, published in Nature Communications, relies on Synthetic Aperture Radar data collected between 1990 and 1992 by the Magellan spacecraft.
Exo Worlds
Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
Researchers have directly detected - essentially photographed - a new planet called WISPIT 2b, labeled a protoplanet because it is an astronomical object that is accumulating material and growing into a fully-realized planet.
Physics News
New tabletop detector to capture gravitational waves in the milli-Hz range
Gravitational waves - minute ripples in spacetime first predicted by Einstein - have so far been observed only at high and ultra-low frequencies.
Physics News
Listening for gravitational wave beats in pulsar timing data
In 2023, international PTA collaborations such as NANOGrav in the United States and their European counterparts reported strong evidence for nanohertz gravitational waves.
Stellar Chemistry
Dark energy’s shifting role explored through advanced supercomputer simulations
Recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) indicate that dark energy may not be constant, suggesting a dynamic dark energy (DDE) component that changes over time.
Time And Space
Quantum Mechanics, Probability, and the Science of Chance
When observed, the wave function appears to "collapse" to a single outcome. A particle may have a high probability of being detected in one place and a lower probability in another, but only one result emerges once measured.
Exo Worlds
Young rogue planet displays record-breaking ‘growth spurt’
A team of international researchers have explored changes in the planet's growth and immediate surroundings.
About Us
World-renowned chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies at 91
Goodall "died peacefully in her sleep while in Los Angeles" on a speaking tour of the United States, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a statement on Instagram.
Stellar Chemistry
Galaxies reveal hidden maps of dark matter in the early universe
In a newly published study in Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers used what they said are the largest-ever samples of special galaxies called Lyman-alpha emitters to study how galaxies clumped together over billions of years.
Time And Space
Mapping the universe made faster with new computational tool
Dr. Marco Bonici, a postdoctoral fellow at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, led an international collaboration that developed Effort.jl, an emulator…
Time And Space
Giant double-ring radio galaxy found halfway across the unhgerse
These enormous, faint rings of magnetised plasma emit only in the radio band and typically span 10 to 20 times the diameter of the Milky Way.