The Smallest, Lightest Neutron Star Ever Seen Could be a "Strange Star"

By Brian Koberlein - October 26, 2022 10:08 AM UTC | Stars

A neutron star lighter than the Sun could be a strange matter star.

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Lucy Took This Picture of Earth as it was Making its Gravity Assist Maneuver

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2022 08:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 25, 2022 05:00 PM UTC | Stars

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Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shield

By Matthew Williams - October 25, 2022 04:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space debris,

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Maybe We Don't See Aliens Because Nobody Wants to Come Here

By Evan Gough - October 25, 2022 04:09 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2022 03:42 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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The New Ariane 6 Heavy Lift Rocket is Finally on the Launch Pad, But Won't Liftoff Until Late 2023

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2022 08:54 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Lucy Zipped Past Earth to get a Gravitational Assist Towards Jupiter's Trojans

By Andy Tomaswick - October 24, 2022 08:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years

By Evan Gough - October 24, 2022 02:01 PM UTC | Cosmology

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A Black Hole is Hurling a jet of Material at its Neighboring Galaxy

By Matthew Williams - October 23, 2022 03:33 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Scientists Find an Ancient Stellar Catalog Written by Hipparcus Hidden in a Medieval Tome

By Brian Koberlein - October 23, 2022 02:38 PM UTC | Stars

Spectral imaging reveals the Hipparchus astronomical catalog was much more precise than we thought.

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A Nearby Star Has Completely Blasted Away the Atmosphere From its Planet

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 22, 2022 11:57 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Chandra's X-ray Vision Combined With JWST Reveals Even More Details About the Universe

By Paul Sutter - October 22, 2022 09:55 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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No More Big Rip, Pillars of Creation by JWST, Biggest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever

By kuingul-gmail - October 22, 2022 07:52 AM UTC | Extragalactic

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Will Mars finally answer, 'Are we alone?'

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - October 22, 2022 01:11 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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Astronomers Find a "Marshmallow World": the Lowest Density Gas Giant Ever Discovered

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 21, 2022 10:18 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Mars Could Have Been Warm and wet, While Earth was Still a Glowing Ball of Molten Rock

By Matthew Williams - October 21, 2022 06:10 PM UTC | Planetary Science

New research suggests that when Earth was still a ball of molten rock, Mars may have been covered in warm, blue oceans!

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Early Life on Mars Might Have Wiped Out Life on Mars

By Evan Gough - October 21, 2022 12:48 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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NASA Just Ordered Three More Orion Capsules, for Artemis VI, VII, and VIII

By Nancy Atkinson - October 21, 2022 12:32 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Nitrous Oxide, aka "Laughing gas", Could be an Indication of Life in an Exoplanet

By Paul Sutter - October 21, 2022 09:40 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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