One Solar Storm Could Ground Spaceflight for Decades
Modern low-Earth orbit (LEO) has become a crowded, fast-moving environment. New research warns that a single powerful so...
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Timing Reveals Calm Origins for Some Hot Jupiters Today
Hot Jupiters — giant planets that hug their stars in blisteringly short orbits — have puzzled astronomers for decades. A...
Real-Life Tatooine: A Young Giant Planet Orbits Two Suns
Astronomers have found and directly imaged a massive exoplanet that orbits two suns — a real-life echo of the fictional ...
James Webb Finds Atmosphere on Lava World TOI-561 b
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the strongest evidence yet that a small, ultra-hot rocky exoplanet — TOI...
JWST Sees Exoplanet Sprout Two Giant Helium Tails Unexpected
About 880 light-years away a scorched gas giant is literally pouring part of itself into space. New observations from th...
Close Call: Chinese Satellite Passed 200m from Starlink
SpaceX says a Chinese satellite passed within roughly 200 meters of one of its Starlink spacecraft during a recent launc...
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks: How to Watch the Sky Tonight
December brings the northern hemisphere's brightest annual meteor display: the Geminids. This shower often outshines the...
Mars' Hidden Role: How It Shapes Earth's Climate Cycle
Earth's long-term climate swings — the alternation between ice ages and warmer intervals — are often explained by Milank...
Space Dust Shows Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Thought
Scientists have discovered an unlikely timekeeper for Arctic sea ice: microscopic particles from space. By tracking trac...
Why Super-Jupiters Might Not Resemble Jupiter in Appearance
We picture giant exoplanets as oversized Jupiters — banded, stormy and familiar. New observations and atmospheric models...
Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Revealed by Subaru and Gaia
Astronomers using a smart mix of space-based star tracking and Subaru Telescope imaging have uncovered two rare companio...
Is TRAPPIST-1e Hosting Methane? Webb's Ambiguous Clues
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has returned its first detailed look at TRAPPIST-1e, one of seven Earth-sized worlds o...
2025 Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks: Signs of Recovery
This year’s Antarctic ozone hole was unexpectedly small and short-lived, according to NOAA and NASA analyses. Scientists...
Voyager 2 Mystery Solved: Solar Storm Supercharged Uranus
Forty years after Voyager 2's historic flyby, researchers at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) propose a compellin...
Rain on Ancient Mars? Kaolinite Points to a Tropical Past
Small, pale patches dotting Jezero Crater have given scientists fresh evidence that parts of Mars may once have been war...
Cosmic Tornado: Longest Rotating Filament Discovered
A team of astronomers has identified a colossal, twisting strand of galaxies that appears to be rotating like a slow-mot...
Cold Supermoon on December 4: How to Photograph It
The last full Moon of 2025 will arrive with extra drama. On the evening of Thursday, December 4, a Cold Supermoon will c...
Curiosity Cracked a Mars Rock and Uncovered Elemental Sulfur
When NASA's Curiosity rover accidentally crushed a seemingly ordinary rock on the floor of Gediz Vallis, it exposed a br...
Superionic Heart: Carbon Softens Earth's Inner Core
New high-pressure experiments suggest Earth’s inner core isn’t a typical solid but a hybrid, superionic material: iron r...
Turning Space Junk into Reusable Spacecraft Materials
As launches, constellations and plans for the Moon and Mars multiply, the growing cloud of discarded satellites and rock...