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Ten Years at Jupiter and Still Going Strong: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Exceeds Expectations
Originally planned to complete 34 orbits around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at the gas giant on July 4, 2016 with the aim of completing…
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The Hunt for Earth 2.0: How Lockheed Martin Plans to Spot Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
On its quest to find Earth’s twin, NASA is designing a next-generation space telescope that will focus on one specific, audacious goal: to directly image…
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Volare, Cantare, Lunare
Naming Luca Parmitano as pilot of Artemis III is a brilliant, historic decision that makes all of Europe stand a little taller. This choice recognizes…
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Astronomers Discover Invisible Magnetic “Shields” Protecting Scorched Alien Worlds
They were investigating winds on extrasolar worlds but found something else. In a major leap forward for exoplanetary science, an international team of astronomers has…
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Shifting Gears for America’s Next Moonshot
The Boeing-built Core Stage 3 (CS3) serves as the literal backbone of the entire Space Launch System (SLS), as it is designed to support the…
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Ultimate Cosmic Engines Hide Terrifying Secrets
We’re used to thinking of Black Holes as cosmic vacuums—invisible voids that just trap light and devour everything. But the most powerful monsters in our…
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The Heat Is Out There: Tracking the Warmth of Alien Technology
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has largely operated on a single, fragile assumption: that if advanced aliens are out there, they want to talk…
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Triple Triple Little Star: Rare Triply-Eclipsing Triple Star System Discovered
It may be a cosmic double-triple as astronomers have just announced the discovery of a peculiar stellar trio exhibiting triple-eclipses, consisting of a binary star…
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AI in Astronomy? Machine Learning to Help Us Find and Explore Star Clusters
In the era of growing exploitation of AI, astronomy can truly benefit from it too. A Brazilian astronomer proposes a multiple machine learning method (MMLM)…
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NASA Releases a Stunning Cosmic Map Packed With Potential Alien Worlds
NASA has just published the most complete view yet of the night sky captured by its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), unveiling a dazzling cosmic…
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ALMA’s Record-Breaking Image Reveals a Galactic Nightmare
For decades, the center of our Milky Way galaxy has remained hidden behind thick clouds of dust — a dark, violent region that only a…
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