The Habitable Worlds Observatory, NASA’s planned successor to the James Webb Space Telescope, will be a monster of an instrument.…
RCW 38 is a molecular cloud of ionized hydrogen (HII) roughly 5,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the…
When astronomers detected the first known interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, in 2017, it sparked a host of new studies trying to…
NASA continues to progress with the development of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), the next-generation observatory with a…
Our neighbour, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is rich in gas and dust and hosts regions of extremely robust star…
Hydrogel protection could be crucial for safe human space exploration. It’s a key problem that will need to be addressed,…
When massive stars reach the end of their life cycle, they undergo gravitational collapse and shed their outer layers in…
Planets are born in swirling disks of gas and dust around young stars. Astronomers are keenly interested in the planet…
Sometimes, things across the vast Universe line up just right for us. The Einstein Ring above, like all Einstein Rings,…
Our Sun is a giant plasma windbag spewing a constant stream of charged particles called the solar wind. This stream…