The Magnetar at the Heart of a Superluminous Supernova May 21, 2026The Magnetar at the Heart of a Superluminous Supernova By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/XHoEadw) Superluminous supernovae are the royalty in...Read More
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NASA's Psyche Mission Says Goodbye to Mars and Heads for its Metal-Rich Target May 20, 2026NASA's Psyche Mission Says Goodbye to Mars and Heads for its Metal-Rich Target By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/0LAdPWn) Spacecraft ofte...Read More
Extreme Lunar Conditions Need an Extreme Test Rig May 20, 2026Extreme Lunar Conditions Need an Extreme Test Rig By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/qvQsChV) When people eventually head to the...Read More
Mergers, Mayhem, and the Milky Way May 20, 2026Mergers, Mayhem, and the Milky Way By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/0LAdPWn) Galaxies grow through mergers and collisions, and astronomers w...Read More
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 1: The Apology Begins May 20, 2026Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 1: The Apology Begins By Paul Sutter (https://ift.tt/iY5HTGK) Years of grievance against dus...Read More
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VI: The Great Silence and the Great Filter May 19, 2026A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VI: The Great Silence and the Great Filter By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/hza6Sj9) In the closing ...Read More
TESS Data Reveals 27 New Planet Candidates in Binary Systems May 18, 2026TESS Data Reveals 27 New Planet Candidates in Binary Systems By Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://ift.tt/iMQ5Y9c) You’re doing some late af...Read More
Astronomers Find New Circumbinary "Tatooine-like" Planet Candidates May 18, 2026Astronomers Find New Circumbinary "Tatooine-like" Planet Candidates By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/IxY2m10) There...Read More
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part V: The First Interstellar Messengers May 18, 2026A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part V: The First Interstellar Messengers By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/MH69N3W) During the 1970s, the...Read More
Iron and Ice: Earth's Passage Through the Interstellar Cloud May 18, 2026Iron and Ice: Earth's Passage Through the Interstellar Cloud By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/dQFtfB4) Our Solar System is currently pas...Read More
Gazing Into the Past With TIME May 18, 2026Gazing Into the Past With TIME By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/dQFtfB4) How can astronomers observe ancient galaxies when they're so ch...Read More
What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 3: A Universe From Nothing May 18, 2026What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 3: A Universe From Nothing By Paul Sutter (https://ift.tt/xL6K5Oq) Run Hawking's machiner...Read More
New Algorithm Cracks the Asteroid Routing Problem May 18, 2026New Algorithm Cracks the Asteroid Routing Problem By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/gmvAfi4) The Traveling Salesman is a classic problem ...Read More
What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 2: No Boundary, No Problem May 17, 2026What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 2: No Boundary, No Problem By Paul Sutter (https://ift.tt/vKqW5EH) Hawking faced a question w...Read More
What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 1: A Wave Function for the Universe May 16, 2026What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 1: A Wave Function for the Universe By Paul Sutter (https://ift.tt/QRnI1tg) The equations of ...Read More
Bizarre Venus Surface Formations Puzzle Planetary Scientists May 15, 2026Bizarre Venus Surface Formations Puzzle Planetary Scientists By Bruce Dorminey (https://ift.tt/jWI2F8Z) Enigmatic crownlike surface forma...Read More
Turbulence in the Milky Way's ISM Distorts Light from Distant Quasars May 15, 2026Turbulence in the Milky Way's ISM Distorts Light from Distant Quasars By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/cCKHvkM) We may be getting better...Read More
It's Raining Stardust. It Has Been for Thousands of Years. May 15, 2026It's Raining Stardust. It Has Been for Thousands of Years. By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/K9EXfTe) Right now, as you read this, Ear...Read More
We've Been Listening for Ten Years. Here's What We Heard May 14, 2026We've Been Listening for Ten Years. Here's What We Heard By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/K9EXfTe) For ten years, astronomers at ...Read More
UC Student Gets a Closer Look at Lonely Gas Giant May 14, 2026UC Student Gets a Closer Look at Lonely Gas Giant By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/nHjv9Ny) University of Cincinnati astrophysicist Pa...Read More
We've Been Wasting 99% of Our Supernova Data May 14, 2026We've Been Wasting 99% of Our Supernova Data By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/K9EXfTe) Every time an astronomer points a telescope at...Read More
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part IV: Arecibo and the WOW! Signal May 13, 2026A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part IV: Arecibo and the WOW! Signal By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/nHjv9Ny) During the 1970s, pioneeri...Read More
Forget Searching for Individual Biosignatures. Instead, Find Their Patterns May 13, 2026Forget Searching for Individual Biosignatures. Instead, Find Their Patterns By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/mUpT1oX) The search for life el...Read More
Four People in a Pixel May 13, 2026Four People in a Pixel By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/ZWatm4U) When NASA's Artemis II spacecraft carried four astronauts around the...Read More
Were Martian Tides Strong Enough to Shape its Ancient Landscape? May 12, 2026Were Martian Tides Strong Enough to Shape its Ancient Landscape? By Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://ift.tt/BqwJCop) You’re an anaerobic m...Read More
Before and After the 2025 Tsunami in Alaska May 12, 2026Before and After the 2025 Tsunami in Alaska By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/mUpT1oX) In 2025, a retreating glacier in Alaska caused a lands...Read More
Jupiter Is Much More Complicated Than Previously Thought, Says NASA May 12, 2026Jupiter Is Much More Complicated Than Previously Thought, Says NASA By Bruce Dorminey (https://ift.tt/hwSP5D2) Jupiter, the gravitational...Read More
Meerkat is Watching May 12, 2026Meerkat is Watching By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/ZWatm4U) In February 2013, a 20 metre asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Che...Read More
How 'Snowball Earth' Was A Tug-Of-War May 11, 2026How 'Snowball Earth' Was A Tug-Of-War By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/ZDKvLBH) A new study by planetary scientists at Harvard offer...Read More
Study Identifies Geyers the JUICE Mission Could Explore on Ganymede May 11, 2026Study Identifies Geyers the JUICE Mission Could Explore on Ganymede By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/wn1HRrx) A new international scie...Read More
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New Model Finds the Lower Size Limit for Habitable Exoplanets May 11, 2026New Model Finds the Lower Size Limit for Habitable Exoplanets By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/B4i0d8M) The search for Earth 2.0 has beg...Read More
Astronomers Find an X-Ray Key to the Red Dot Mystery May 10, 2026Astronomers Find an X-Ray Key to the Red Dot Mystery By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/8O7sQBR) Ever since JWST first began pee...Read More
"Hypergravity" Rewires Biology Over the Long Haul May 10, 2026"Hypergravity" Rewires Biology Over the Long Haul By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/B4i0d8M) There’s a specific sequence in the...Read More
Astronomers from Western University Discover the Birthplace of Cosmic "Buckyballs" May 09, 2026Astronomers from Western University Discover the Birthplace of Cosmic "Buckyballs" By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/34lma6t) ...Read More
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A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part II: Ozma and the Drake Equation May 09, 2026A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part II: Ozma and the Drake Equation By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/34lma6t) By the mid-20th century, t...Read More
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Pentagon Releases UFO Files That Go Back to the Apollo Moon Missions May 08, 2026Pentagon Releases UFO Files That Go Back to the Apollo Moon Missions By Alan Boyle (https://ift.tt/RIPF8rH) The Department of Defense has...Read More
The Material Science Behind A Spacecraft's Impact Armor May 08, 2026The Material Science Behind A Spacecraft's Impact Armor By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/SDzvgc8) Aerospace engineers have to consid...Read More
“Simplified Proteins” Reveal the Biochemical Dawn of Early Earth May 07, 2026“Simplified Proteins” Reveal the Biochemical Dawn of Early Earth By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/SDzvgc8) When researchers look up at t...Read More
The Asteroid Hunter May 07, 2026The Asteroid Hunter By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/c2NHpto) Somewhere out there, hurtling through space in the darkness, is an asteroid...Read More
How Massive Star Clusters Shape Galaxy Evolution May 07, 2026How Massive Star Clusters Shape Galaxy Evolution By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/dNYjEn4) A team of researchers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James...Read More
Ringing the GONG: New Details About the Sun's Far-side Activities May 07, 2026Ringing the GONG: New Details About the Sun's Far-side Activities By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/FPxiCVn) For years, whe...Read More
Astronomers Witness the Awesome Power of a Black Hole's "Dancing Jets" May 06, 2026Astronomers Witness the Awesome Power of a Black Hole's "Dancing Jets" By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/y4XRl31) New Cur...Read More
First Images From the Pandora Exoplanet Mission May 06, 2026First Images From the Pandora Exoplanet Mission By David Dickinson (https://ift.tt/wua8Iq4) A new mission promises to 'open the box...Read More
Subaru Telescope Reveals New Data on the Interior Composition of 3I/ATLAS May 05, 2026Subaru Telescope Reveals New Data on the Interior Composition of 3I/ATLAS By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/oKyeW4A) The Subaru Telesco...Read More