Artist’s impression of the disk and jet in the young star system HH 1177 Credit: European…
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Building blocks for life could have formed near new stars and planets
Credit: CC0 Public Domain While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that…
Webb captures a prominent protostar in Perseus
In the lower half of the image is a narrow, horizontal nebula that stretches from edge…
Astronomers find ’tilted’ planets even in pristine solar systems
In this diagram, two orbiting planets exhibit a slight tilt compared to the spin axis of…
Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth from radiation, but it can move, and the magnetic poles can even flip
The north magnetic pole’s observed locations from 1831–2007 are yellow squares. Modeled pole locations from 1590–2025…
Aerocapture is a ‘free lunch’ in space exploration
Visualization of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter aerobraking at Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab When spacecraft return…
SpaceX sends up Space Coast’s 66th launch of the year
Credit: CC0 Public Domain SpaceX chalked up another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…
Solar activity likely to peak next year, new study suggests
Image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory mission of the solar disk with multiple sunspots, which appear…
If warp drives are impossible, maybe faster-than-light communication is still on the table?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain I’m sure many readers of Universe Today are, like me, fans of…
What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world
Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL Uranus, the seventh planet from…