ALMA observations reveal new insights into planet formation in binary star systems

Credit: S. Dagnello, NSF/AUI/NRAO At the 244th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), researchers unveiled…

Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Visits Partners in Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, and France

Throughout my days at the Gathering, we discussed the intersections between science, art, and the humanities.…

How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?

 Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with…

NASA’s asteroid sample mission gives scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor

Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer…

NASA Analysis Confirms a Year of Monthly Temperature Records

May 2024 was the warmest May on the books, marking a full year of record-high monthly…

What DART has taught us so far

Scoring a bulls-eye Just two weeks after impact, NASA confirmed that DART changed the orbit of…

Origins of fast radio bursts come into focus through polarized light

Artist’s rendition of how the angle of polarized light from an FRB changes as it journeys…

55 Years Ago: Manned Orbiting Laboratory Cancellation

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), a joint classified project of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and…

How did a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way come to be? Physicists offer an explanation

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest…

The first stars in the universe could have formed surprisingly early

An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope showing thousands of extremely distant galaxies NASA,…