The Fastest Spinning Asteroids are Most Likely to Have Moons

Binary asteroid systems, in which a large asteroid is orbited by a smaller satellite, are a…

Advancing Martian Geology Mapping with Machine Learning Tools

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc May 12, 2025 How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to advance…

Webb Watches Auroras Dance in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

Auroral displays are breathtaking light shows that can be seen across high latitude skies, created by…

Everything in the Universe Could Decay from Hawking Radiation

Hawking radiation, proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking in 1974, describes the process by which black holes…

TESS Has Found Exoplanets. Can it Find Rings Around Them?

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our Solar System—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the…

Glass Beads on the Moon Contain Material Dug Up from Deep Down

If we could peel back the Moon’s cratered crust and examine its mantle, we might find…

Perseverance Sees Deimos in the Sky

NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover is perhaps the most sophisticated Martian explorer to date, It’s  been exploring…

Tracking Down “Annihilation Photons” Could Lead To Unique Binary Systems

Tracking the sources of photons is a hobby of many astrophysicists. Some types of photons are…

A Black Hole is Firing Bullet-Like Blobs of Gas into Space

Black holes are objects that are so dense that not even light can escape their gravitational…

Could Dark Matter Be Evolving Over Time, and Not Dark Energy?

For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standard…