Breaking the Curse of the Habitable Zone

The Habitable Zone is a central concept in our explorations for life outside the Earth. Is…

ESA – The pierogi challenge

Decades of expertise in cooking traditional dishes and preparing freeze-dried food for expeditions in Earth’s most…

The James Webb Space Telescope maps full picture of how Phoenix Galaxy Cluster forms stars

This image of the Phoenix cluster combines data from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Chandra X-ray…

Axions could help solve physics’ dark matter problem : Short Wave : NPR

The combined gravity of all the regular and dark matter trapped inside the cluster shown here…

Is the Habitable Worlds Observatory a Good Idea?

The Habitable Worlds Observatory, NASA’s planned successor to the James Webb Space Telescope, will be a…

Speediest exoplanet found near Milky Way center?

View larger. | Artist’s visualization of stars near the center of the Milky Way. The longer…

Why won’t the Blaze Star explode? (and how YOU can see it when it does)

The Blaze Star isn’t one star but 2. It’s a binary system with a white dwarf…

Many Stars Could Have Sent Us ‘Oumuamua

When astronomers detected the first known interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, in 2017, it sparked a host of…

Spring-loaded Robot Could Explore the Asteroid Belt Almost Indefinitely

The asteroid belt beckons – it contains enough resources for humans to expand into the entire…

Stunning 80 Megapixel Image of a Stellar Nursery

RCW 38 is a molecular cloud of ionized hydrogen (HII) roughly 5,500 light-years from Earth in…