Dust is Hiding how Powerful Quasars Really are

By Matthew Williams - January 24, 2023 04:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic

A new study has found that Active Galactic Nuclei are much brighter and similar to one another than previously thought.

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A New Survey of the Milky Way Reveals Billions of Objects, Helping to Map Our Surroundings in Three Dimensions

By Evan Gough - January 24, 2023 02:55 PM UTC | Milky Way

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JWST Sees Frozen Water, Ammonia, Methane and Other Ices in a Protostellar Nebula

By Nancy Atkinson - January 24, 2023 01:14 PM UTC | Stars

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A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it up

By Matthew Williams - January 23, 2023 05:51 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal for a pellet-beam spacecraft could enable interstellar missions and a Solar Gravitational Lens in a matter of decades.

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Titan's Dragonfly Test, New Nuclear Rocket, Shadow Universe

By kuingul-gmail - January 22, 2023 06:46 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A new Propulsion System Could Levitate Vehicles in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

By Andy Tomaswick - January 21, 2023 11:19 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Binary Dwarf Stars Found Orbiting Each Other Every 20 Hours. They Were Once Almost Touching

By Evan Gough - January 20, 2023 06:25 PM UTC | Stars

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Light Pollution is Obscuring the Night Sky. RIP Stargazing

By Evan Gough - January 20, 2023 03:46 PM UTC | Observing

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A new way to Peer Into the Permanently Shadowed Craters on the Moon, Searching for Deposits of Water ice

By Andy Tomaswick - January 20, 2023 10:35 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam

By Evan Gough - January 19, 2023 05:37 PM UTC | Physics

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Instead of Building Structures on Mars, we Could Grow Them With the Help of Bacteria

By Matthew Williams - January 19, 2023 04:06 PM UTC | Astrobiology

A new process that combines bacteria and lichen could "grow" bricks from Martian soil. The proposal selected for development by the NASA Advanced Innovation Concepts program.

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Exploring the Outer Solar System Takes Power, Here's a Way to Miniaturize Nuclear Batteries for Deep Space

By Evan Gough - January 19, 2023 12:57 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Could Next-Generation Telescopes See That Earth Has Life?

By Evan Gough - January 18, 2023 07:12 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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By Blocking the Light From a Star, Webb Reveals the Dusty Disk Surrounding It

By Evan Gough - January 18, 2023 06:05 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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The Donut That Used To Be a Star

By Evan Gough - January 18, 2023 01:15 PM UTC | Stars

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You're Looking at a Map of the Milky Way's Magnetic Field

By Nancy Atkinson - January 18, 2023 12:29 PM UTC | Milky Way

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Unistellar Releases a New Smartscope: the eQuinox 2

By David Dickinson - January 18, 2023 08:37 AM UTC | Telescopes

Unistellar's eQuinox 2 is set to continue the smartscope revolution.

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New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days

By Matthew Williams - January 17, 2023 06:11 PM UTC | Missions

NASA's Advanced Innovation Concepts (NAIC) program selected a new type of bimodal nuclear propulsion that could allow for missions to Mars in 45 days!

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A Black Hole is Savoring its Meal, Feeding on the Same Star Over and Over Again

By Evan Gough - January 17, 2023 05:08 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Using the Shadows of Clusters to Measure the Universe

By Paul Sutter - January 17, 2023 02:01 PM UTC | Cosmology

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