Astronomers found a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter

The plasma near Jupiter’s poles is capable of unusual behaviour NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MS​SS; Oleksuik © CC NC SA…

The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?

An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this portion of the Milky Way galaxy NASA, ESA, CSA,…

Our third interstellar visitor might be 8 billion years old

The trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system NASA/JPL-Caltech An interstellar…

Did something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are racing to find out

Is the flash highlighted in blue a data glitch, or something more? Mario Rana Something may…

A11pl3Z: Interstellar comet hurtling through solar system named 3I/ATLAS

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object we have seen in the solar system E. Guido,…

Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed

The Northwest Africa 12264 meteorite is older than expected Ben Hoefnagels Tiny shavings from a single…

Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae

A bioplastic container inside a chamber simulating Mars’s environment Wordsworth et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadp4985…

New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

Artist’s illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in the outer solar system Joe Olmsted/STScI As it…

A11pl3Z: Interstellar visitor spotted hurtling through the solar system

The predicted path of A11pl3Z, making it the third interstellar object ever seen in the solar…

Stunning image of a supernova reveals a dead star that exploded twice

Two concentric rings appear around the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, indicating that it exploded twice ESO/P.…