Roadmap for Obtaining First Sample Returns from Mercury and Venus

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc April 15, 2025 How can we successfully collect and return samples from…

Supermassive black hole Ansky awakens with record-breaking X-ray flares

Astronomers initially detected enhanced optical emissions from galaxy SDSS1335+0728 in December 2019, indicating renewed activity from…

How to spot Haumea, one of the solar system’s strangest objects

An artist’s illustration of Haumea Science Photo Library/Alamy I find the outer reaches of our solar…

How to spot the 2025 Lyrids and Eta Aquarids meteor showers

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower as visible in Sri Lanka in 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/ Getty Images…

Astronomers Push Webb to its Limits to Visualize the Most Distant Galaxies Of All!

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began science operations, astronomers have observed galaxies that existed…

Andromeda’s satellite galaxies challenge the standard model

Contrary to expectations from the standard model of cosmology, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)…

The Most Metal Poor Stars are Living Fossils from the Beginning of the Universe

Our Sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far…

Astronomers Push Webb to its Limits to Visualize the Most Distance Galaxies Of All!

When JWST launched, it found the most distant known galaxy: JADES-GS-z14-0, with a redshift of 14.32,…

Testing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space…

Atomic Clock and Plant DNA Research Launching Aboard NASA’s SpaceX CRS-32 Mission 

NASA’s SpaceX 32nd commercial resupply services mission, scheduled to lift off from the agency’s Kennedy Space…