Corrected sunspot records show the Maunder minimum did not end abruptly

(Top panel) Daily number of sunspot groups recorded by all the contemporary observers included in the…

SpaceX rolls out new booster for Cape Canaveral launch

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX launches lately have been pushing the record envelope for booster reflight,…

Astronomers discover spectacular increase in the deuterium to hydrogen ratio in Venus’s atmosphere

Diagram of the proposed Venus mesospheric water cycle mechanism to sustain the observed HDO and H2O…

New view of North Star reveals spotted surface

CHARA Array false-color image of Polaris from April 2021 that reveals large bright and dark spots…

New simulations shed light on stellar destruction by supermassive black holes

Disk formation in an isentropic simulation (radiatively efficient cooling) with a spinning black hole (a =…

Hubble spots a cluster of emission nebulae within the Large Magellanic Cloud

This Hubble image shows a complex cluster of emission nebulae, nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud.…

Supercomputer simulations offer explanation for X-ray radiation from black holes

Visualization shows how the turbulent plasma moves in the magnetized accretion disk corona. Credit: Jani Närhi…

The evolution of the Trappist-1 planetary system

All seven planets discovered in orbit around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could easily fit inside…

A European lander could return an ice core for a fraction of the cost of Europa Clipper

Depiction of the NIMPH mission architecture. Credit: Michael VanWoerkom Cost is a major driving factor in…

Dark matter and stars not interacting as previously thought

One of the team’s Very Large Telescope images showing massive galaxies in a group. The galaxies…