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Searching for Cosmic Survivors: Roman Telescope Targets Planets Around Dead Stars
Despite discovering thousands of exoplanets across the galaxy, finding alien worlds orbiting white dwarfs has proven extraordinarily elusive: to date, astronomers have confirmed only one such planet – known as WD 1856+534 b. Now, with the…
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$15M Ride to Alpha Centauri: Garrett Jameson on Humanity’s First Interstellar Mission
In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, sending a spacecraft beyond our Solar System relied on Hollywood physics and world-ending desperation. Garrett Jameson, co-founder and program manager of the newly announced Fermi Explorer Mission, is taking a more grounded…
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The Oddball Star Cluster That Skipped a Phase
Deep in the constellation Cepheus lies NGC 7419, an oddball star cluster that may rewrite the rules of stellar aging. In a typical cluster’s lifecycle, colossal stars expand into glowing blue supergiants before cooling into red…
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Tiny Telescope Aims for Big Astronomy From the Lunar South Pole
When China’s Chang’e-7 lander touches down near the Shackleton Crater on the Moon, it will carry a compact, low-mass instrument carrying massive scientific potential: the ILO-C camera-telescope. Built through an international collaboration between Hawaii’s International Lunar…
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When Gas Giants Share the Sky: The Discovery of Planetary System TOI-4468
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new planetary system about 1,200 light years away. The newfound system is unique among others as it hosts a close outer…
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Astronomers May Have Spotted the First-Ever Binary R Coronae Borealis Star
For decades, astronomers believed that the hydrogen-deficient R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars were strictly solitary survivors of catastrophic mergers of two dead white dwarfs. But one of such RCBs, designated WISE J005128.08+645651.7, is turning that textbook…