What Makes Brown Dwarfs So Weird?

Meet the brown dwarf: bigger than a planet, and smaller than a star. A category of…

Archaeology On Mars: Preserving Artifacts of Our Expansion Into the Solar System

In 1971, the Soviet Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft to land on Mars, though…

Building the Black Hole Family Tree

In 2019, astronomers observed an unusual gravitational chirp. Known as GW190521, it was the last scream…

A Binary Star Found Surprisingly Close to the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Binary stars are common throughout the galaxy. Roughly half the stars in the Milky Way are…

Need to Accurately Measure Time in Space? Use a COMPASSO

Telling time in space is difficult, but it is absolutely critical for applications ranging from testing…

Brightest Geminid fireball in 30 years of SPMN recorded over Spain

Spanish Fireball and Meteorite Research Network (SPMN) reported the brightest Geminid fireball observed in 30 years…

New Research Suggests Io Doesn’t Have a Shallow Ocean of Magma

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, with roughly 400…

The Mysterious Case of the Resurrected Star

The star HD 65907 is not what it appears to be. It’s a star that looks…

The JWST Looked Over the Hubble’s Shoulder and Confirmed that the Universe is Expanding Faster

It’s axiomatic that the Universe is expanding. However, the rate of expansion hasn’t remained the same.…

Astronaut Don Pettit is Serious, He Rigged up Astrophotography Gear on the ISS

Astrophotography is a challenging art. Beyond the usual skill set of understanding things such as light…