Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white...
In studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally...
Our solar system is our immediate cosmic neighborhood. We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky...
Scientists have determined that a rare element found in some of the oldest solids in the solar system, such as...
By diving into the sun’s corona, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field...
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern has used observation-based computer modeling to find an explanation...
A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the moon next month in a high-stakes, world-first maneuver...
The surface of Uranus’ moon Ariel is coated with a significant amount of carbon dioxide ice, especially on its “trailing...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an MPIA-led team of astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star...
The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 kicked off an exciting new era for exoplanet research,...
A team of scientists from Montana State University has provided the first experimental evidence that two new groups of microbes...
Interest in Earth-like planets orbiting within the habitable zone of their host stars has surged, driven by the quest to...
