99% of Space Junk is Undetectable. That Could Change Soon

By Nancy Atkinson - December 06, 2023 02:54 PM UTC | Space Policy

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Astronomers Calculate Which Exoplanets Are Most Likely to Have Water

By Evan Gough - December 06, 2023 02:14 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Famed Halley's Comet Passes Aphelion This Weekend

By David Dickinson - December 06, 2023 10:43 AM UTC | Planetary Science

Famous Halley's Comet reaches a distant milestone this coming weekend.

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Another Fast Radio Burst is Coming from a Hypernebula. Also, Hypernebulae are a Thing

By mark-thompson - December 05, 2023 07:36 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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This Planet is Way Too Big for its Star

By Evan Gough - December 05, 2023 01:41 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Red Sprites are Best Seen from Space

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - December 05, 2023 12:23 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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How Can Astronauts Maintain Their Bodies With Minimal Equipment?

By Matthew Williams - December 04, 2023 08:21 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Will Wide Binaries Be the End of MOND?

By mark-thompson - December 04, 2023 07:41 PM UTC | Physics

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Europa Clipper Could Help Discover if Jupiter's Moon is Habitable

By Matthew Williams - December 04, 2023 02:53 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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NASA's Interstellar Mapping Probe Prepares for a 2025 Launch

By Nancy Atkinson - December 04, 2023 01:52 PM UTC | Missions

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Does Betelgeuse Even Rotate? Maybe Not

By mark-thompson - December 03, 2023 08:26 PM UTC | Stars

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Eris Could be Slushier Than Pluto

By Matthew Williams - December 02, 2023 02:45 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A Planetary System With Six Sub-Neptunes Locked in Perfect Resonance

By bjohn - December 01, 2023 05:05 PM UTC | Exoplanets

Researchers using TESS and Cheops data found a system with six sub-Neptune-sized planets, all orbiting in direct resonance with each other.

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After Stalling Out for 40 Years, the Largest Iceberg in the World is on the Move

By Nancy Atkinson - December 01, 2023 04:17 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Should We Send Humans to Europa?

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - November 30, 2023 10:17 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Europe is Working on a Multi-Purpose Habitat for the Moon

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - November 30, 2023 09:58 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Hubble is Offline Because of a Problem with one of its Gyros

By Evan Gough - November 30, 2023 07:43 PM UTC | Telescopes

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Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster

By Evan Gough - November 30, 2023 06:24 PM UTC | Stars

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Fermi has Found More than 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars

By Matthew Williams - November 30, 2023 05:39 PM UTC | Stars

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Vera Rubin Will Generate a Mind-Boggling Amount of Data

By Nancy Atkinson - November 30, 2023 04:53 PM UTC | Telescopes

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