Civilizations Could Time Their Communications Based on the Movement of a Single Star

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has been ongoing for decades at this point. Despite that, we…

Astronomers Catch a Supernova Explode Almost in Realtime

Catching a supernova in action is tricky business. There is no way to predict them, and…

Neutron Stars are Jetting Material Away at 40% the Speed of Light

It’s a well known fact that black holes absorb anything that falls into them. Often before…

Lunar Night Permanently Ends the Odysseus Mission

On February 15th, Intuitive Machines (IM) launched its first Nova-C class spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center…

Someone Just Found SOHO’s 5,000th Comet

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was designed to examine the Sun, but as a side…

Webb Joins the Hunt for Protoplanets

We can’t understand what we can’t clearly see. That fact plagues scientists who study how planets…

Hubble Sees a Star About to Ignite

We know how stars form. Clouds of interstellar gas and dust gravitationally collapse to form a…

This Supernova Lit Up the Sky in 1181. Here’s What it Looks Like Now

Historical astronomical records from China and Japan recorded a supernova explosion in the year 1181. It…

This Black Hole is a Total Underachiever

Anyone can be an underachiever, even if you’re an astronomical singularity weighing over four billion times…

Astronomers Only Knew of a Single Binary Cepheid System. Now They Just Found Nine More

Measuring the distance to far away objects in space can be tricky. We don’t even know…