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Scientists Gain a New Understanding of How Stars and Planets Form
As young stars form, they exert a powerful influence on their surroundings and create complex interactions…
How Kerbal Space Program is Inspiring Real Mission Designs
Between multiple space agencies sending crewed missions to the Moon and commercial entities looking to commercialize…
Super Earth’s are Pretty Common. We Just Don’t Have One.
The discovery of exoplanets has transformed astronomy since the early 1990s. Using methods like transit photometry…
JWST Sees How Methanol Evolves in the Outer Solar system
Understanding how life started on Earth means understanding the evolution of chemistry in the Solar System.…
New Research Traces Heavy Elements to Collapsing Stars
Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the early Universe.…
Hubble Spots a Magnetar Zipping Through the Milky Way
Magnetars are among the rarest – and weirdest – denizens of the galactic zoo. They have…
Webb Confirms the Coldest Planet Ever Found. It’s Orbiting a White Dwarf
In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years…
Is This the First Hint of Planet Nine?
The Solar System consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity;…
Exploring the Moon’s Subsurface with LunarLeaper
By Laurence Tognetti, MSc April 26, 2025 What kind of spacecraft can be used to explore…