Read More Scince News Space 6 months ago Why Super-Jupiters Might Not Resemble Jupiter in Appearance New JWST observations and atmospheric models reveal that many "super-Jupiters" — massive exoplanets — may look very different from Jupiter: hotter, redder and dominated by turbulent, dusty storms rather than neat banded clouds.
Read More Scince News Space 6 months ago Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Revealed by Subaru and Gaia OASIS discoveries combine Gaia astrometry and Subaru imaging to reveal a massive planet (HIP 54515 b) and a Roman-ready brown dwarf (HIP 71618 B), advancing direct-imaging and coronagraph tests.
Read More Scince News Space 6 months ago Is TRAPPIST-1e Hosting Methane? Webb's Ambiguous Clues Webb’s first spectra of TRAPPIST-1e show tentative methane signatures, but researchers caution the signal may be stellar contamination. New techniques and missions like Pandora will be crucial to confirm an atmosphere.
Read More Scince News Space 6 months ago 2025 Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks: Signs of Recovery NOAA and NASA report that the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole was unusually small and short-lived. Falling chlorine levels and a weaker polar vortex limited ozone loss, reinforcing signs that the Montreal Protocol is driving recovery.
Read More Scince News Space 6 months ago Voyager 2 Mystery Solved: Solar Storm Supercharged Uranus SwRI researchers suggest a powerful solar wind structure—likely a co-rotating interaction region—boosted Uranus’ radiation belts during Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby, explaining decades-old anomalous measurements.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Rain on Ancient Mars? Kaolinite Points to a Tropical Past Perseverance spotted kaolinite-rich, pale rocks in Jezero Crater. New analyses suggest prolonged rainfall and tropical-like weathering once occurred on Mars, with implications for ancient climate and habitability.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Cosmic Tornado: Longest Rotating Filament Discovered Astronomers have found a 49-million-light-year rotating filament of galaxies, the longest spinning structure observed. Multiwavelength data show coherent rotation, hydrogen-rich gas, and implications for galaxy spin and cosmic web dynamics.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Cold Supermoon on December 4: How to Photograph It The Cold Supermoon on December 4, 2025 will appear larger and brighter as the Moon reaches perigee. Learn the science, timing, and practical photography tips to capture this clear winter moonrise.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Curiosity Cracked a Mars Rock and Uncovered Elemental Sulfur A routine drive by NASA's Curiosity rover accidentally exposed vivid yellow crystals of elemental sulfur in Gediz Vallis, an unexpected discovery that raises new questions about Mars' geological and chemical history.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Superionic Heart: Carbon Softens Earth's Inner Core High-pressure experiments show Earth's inner core may be superionic: an iron lattice with fluid-like carbon diffusion, explaining slow shear waves, high Poisson’s ratio, and implications for the geodynamo and planetary interiors.
Read More Scince News Space Editor's choice 7 months ago Turning Space Junk into Reusable Spacecraft Materials As satellite launches accelerate, researchers propose a circular space economy: design satellites to be repaired, refueled and recycled, deploy robotic debris removal and use AI to cut collisions and waste in orbit.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Can Variable Stars Let Planets Keep Their Water? New Study A new analysis of nine exoplanets orbiting active stars finds stellar variability has limited influence on equilibrium temperatures and that planets near the inner habitable zone can still retain water under many conditions.
Read More Scince News Space Editor's choice 7 months ago Mars's Hidden Glaciers Revealed by Mars Express Imagery Mars Express HRSC imagery reveals lineated valley fill and concentric crater fill in Coloe Fossae, showing glaciers once reached mid-latitudes. These features record Mars’s ice ages driven by axial tilt shifts.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Why Hot Jupiters Host Supersonic Winds Over 3600 km - h Hot Jupiters whip up supersonic jet streams exceeding 3,600 km/h. Discover why close-in gas giants develop iron-rich, dayside–nightside winds and what this means for exoplanet atmospheric science.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Balloon Telescope Reveals Polarized X-Rays Around Cygnus X-1 A balloon-borne telescope, XL-Calibur, captured the most precise polarized hard X-rays from Cygnus X-1, revealing how superheated gas and magnetic fields behave near a black hole and paving the way for future missions.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Why a Red Giant in Gaia BH2 Defies Stellar Theory Today A red giant in the Gaia BH2 system shows ancient alpha-element chemistry but a younger age from asteroseismology, pointing to past mergers or mass transfer in a dormant black hole binary.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Tiny Red Dots: Are Black Hole 'Stars' Behind JWST's Find JWST revealed compact, deeply red point sources in the early universe. New RUBIES spectra suggest some may be 'black hole stars' — accreting supermassive black holes wrapped in dense gas envelopes that mimic stellar photospheres.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Gemini South Reveals Stunning New Image of Butterfly Nebula Gemini South marks its 25th anniversary with a striking new image of the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302), revealing ionized gases and a blazing white dwarf that illuminates stellar death and our Sun's future.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Voyager 1 Reaches One Light-Day Distance from Earth 2026 NASA's Voyager 1 will become the first human-made object one light‑day from Earth on Nov 15, 2026, meaning a 24-hour one-way radio delay and a 48-hour command‑response cycle for mission teams.
Read More Scince News Space 7 months ago Boeing's Starliner Grounded for Crew Flights — What's Next? NASA has barred Boeing's Starliner from carrying astronauts on the next mission, reclassifying Starliner-1 (April 2026) as cargo-only after years of software and propulsion failures. What comes next for Boeing and ISS operations?
