Learning the trick to finding cannibalized stars

Artistic depiction of a Be star and its disk (upper right) orbited by a faint, hot,…

Lunar science is entering a new active phase

The Intuitive Machines payload, which will contain materials for ROLSES, shown on the lunar surface in…

Hubble spots a galaxy shrouded by stars

This Hubble image shows irregular galaxy ESO 245-5 located some of 15 million light-years from Earth.…

Which came first: Black holes or galaxies?

An illustration of a magnetic field generated by a supermassive black hole in the early universe,…

Want to buy a home telescope? Tips from a professional astronomer to help you choose

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night…

Astrophysicists explore links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting extraterrestrial technology on distant planets

Air Supply: Coined by astrophysics Adam Frank and Amedeo Balbi, the “oxygen bottleneck” describes the critical…

India to study black holes with first satellite launch after US

Credit: CC0 Public Domain India launched its first satellite on Monday to study black holes as…

NASA tests 3D-printed, rotating detonation rocket engine

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, conduct a successful, 251-second hot fire…

ESA’s tiny pinhole thruster is ready for production

Credit: IENAI Space Rocket propulsion technology has progressed leaps and bounds since the first weaponized rockets…

Designing the ‘perfect’ meal to feed long-term space travelers

This salad made up of soybeans, poppy seeds, barley, kale, peanuts, sweet potato and sunflower seeds…