Could dark matter be measured around black holes?
Dark matter could be aggregating around black holes, providing a possible means of indirectly measuring...
The JUICE mission is set to launch towards Jupiter
Space enthusiasts will get to have some JUICE for breakfast on Thursday morning. The European...
James Webb Space Telescope observes regions of star formation
The powerful capabilities of the JWST allowed scientists to penetrate dust and gas clouds to...
Liquid nitrogen could solve astronauts’ moon dust woes
Moon dust is the absolute worst. Not only does electrostatics cause it to cling to...
A Uranus mission is a big deal to astronomers
In our solar system neighborhood, there’s one planetary family that we haven’t met properly: the...
Detecting ultralight dark matter particles using supermassive black holes
Is it time to start looking for alternatives to WIMPs? For almost a century, astrophysicists...
Io may have an underworld magma ocean or a hot metal heart
CHICAGO — An entire ocean of liquid magma, or maybe a hot heart of solid...
Crushed space rocks hint at exoplanets’ early atmospheric makeup
Burning bits of ground-up meteorites may tell scientists what exoplanets’ early atmospheres are made of....
Spacey ‘super puffs’ are changing our understanding of how planets form
An artistic rendering of WASP-107b orbiting in front of its star (ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser/)When...
First magnetar flare detected from another galaxy tracked to its home
For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy. These...