View larger. | Pluto (left) and Saturn’s moon Titan (right) have something in common: an unknown…
Category: Earth Sky
Giant space mirror approved to test sunlight on demand
Reflect Orbital’s plans to have more than 50,000 satellites reflecting sunlight back to Earth could cause…
Warped spacetime reveals exoplanet far from its star
View larger. | Artist’s concept of Gaia23bra b, a super-Jupiter exoplanet that is 40,000 light-years away.…
Euclid finds the most ancient quasars in the universe so far
Artist’s concept of a quasar. Quasars are some of the most luminous events in the universe.…
Nearby super-Earth GJ 3378b may be a good candidate for life
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the nearby super-Earth planet GJ 3378b. It’s about twice the…
2 asteroid flybys yield new closeup images
The Japanese space agency (JAXA) just shared an image from the Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Torifune.…
Opportunity left for Mars on July 7, 2003
NASA’s Mars exploration rover Opportunity took this dramatic image of its shadow on sol 180 (July…
Puffiest exoplanets yet found are as dense as cotton candy
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the 2 “super-puff” planets, TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c. They…
How a planet survived the death of its sunlike star
This artist’s concept shows the exoplanet WD 1856 b. It’s a gas giant, similar to Jupiter.…
The Milky Way’s arms might not look as we thought
This video shows what astronomers thought the Milky Way looked like, and what the new data…