A Pulsar has Been Found Turning so Slowly Astronomers Didn't Even Think it was Possible: Once Every 76 Seconds

By Matthew Williams - June 02, 2022 06:17 PM UTC | Stars

Using the MeerKAT array, an international team of astronomers has detected a new class of radio-emitting neutron star!

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The Stars in Other Galaxies are Generally Heavier Than the Milky Way's Stars

By Paul Sutter - June 02, 2022 04:49 PM UTC | Stars

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Even if you can't see Auroras, You Can Sometimes Hear Them. Here's What They Sound Like

By Andy Tomaswick - June 01, 2022 10:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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NASA Will Rent Future Spacesuits From Longtime Supplier and Newcomer

By Alan Boyle - June 01, 2022 07:36 PM UTC | Space Policy

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Dark Stars: The First Stars in the Universe Could Have Been Powered by Annihilating Dark Matter

By Paul Sutter - June 01, 2022 04:49 PM UTC | Stars

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Compare Sand Dunes Across the Solar System, From Venus to Pluto

By Matthew Williams - June 01, 2022 03:49 PM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study explains how bodies as different as Venus, Earth, Mars, Pluto, Titan, and Triton can all have sand dunes on their surface!

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Could we Detect Dark Matter's Annihilation Within Globular Clusters?

By Paul Sutter - May 31, 2022 09:32 PM UTC | Physics

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Why are Uranus and Neptune Different Colors? Haze

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 31, 2022 07:23 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Hubble Sees Two Spiral Galaxies Together

By Nancy Atkinson - May 31, 2022 06:17 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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ESA's Juice Mission is Fully Integrated and Ready for Testing. Soon it'll fly to Space on a Mission to Jupiter's Moons

By Nancy Atkinson - May 31, 2022 02:56 PM UTC | Missions

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Civilizations Don't Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System

By Evan Gough - May 31, 2022 02:29 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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A new Kind of Solar Sail Could let us Explore Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System

By Andy Tomaswick - May 30, 2022 11:05 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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ESA is Developing Microbe-Killing Coatings to Make Spaceflight Healthier

By Andy Tomaswick - May 30, 2022 10:54 PM UTC | Space Exploration

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Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy

By Nancy Atkinson - May 30, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Planets in Binary Systems Could be Habitable, But They'd Form Differently

By Evan Gough - May 30, 2022 01:31 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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Gaia is an Even More Powerful Planet Hunter Than we Thought

By Andy Tomaswick - May 28, 2022 11:06 AM UTC | Exoplanets

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The Dream of Faster-than-Light (FTL) Travel: Dr. Harold "Sonny" White and Limitless Space

By Matthew Williams - May 27, 2022 06:07 PM UTC | Physics

Dr. Harold "Sonny" White and the Limited Space Institute continue to pursue the dream of the Alcubierre Warp Drive, which would allow humans to go interplanetary AND interstellar!

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A new Quantum Technique Could Enable Telescopes the Size of Planet Earth

By Matthew Williams - May 27, 2022 04:44 PM UTC | Telescopes

A new technique that incorporates quantum techniques to interferometry could trigger another revolution in astronomy!

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Voyager 1 is Sending Home Strange Telemetry Data

By Andy Tomaswick - May 27, 2022 12:21 AM UTC | Missions

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The Building Blocks for Supermassive Black Holes are Found in Dwarf Galaxies

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - May 26, 2022 04:11 PM UTC | Black Holes

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