New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.
Astrobites reports on the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in preview data taken before the start of Vera C. Rubin ...
New radio observations provide the best view yet of the WISPIT 2 planetary system, revealing spiral wakes driven by a growing ...
Researchers use stellar pulsations to detect substellar companions around A-type stars — including what could be a ...
Wassenius penned a short account of his observations in Latin for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (the longest-running scientific journal in the world!). His drawings of the event, ...
To make this identification, Chen’s team used archival Hubble Space Telescope and MMT data to examine the location of the planetary nebula candidate M279 within the Andromeda Galaxy. The researchers’ ...
Join us in Salt Lake City, UT, 10–14 January 2027 for exceptional science at the 249th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Register today! The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the ...
Join us in Salt Lake City, UT, 10–14 January 2027 for exceptional science at the 249th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Register today! The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the ...
Ground-based detections are limited due to contamination from Earth’s atmosphere as well as the overall weakness of the carbon dioxide spectral features, thus space-based near-infrared observations of ...
The Sun is freckled with dark spots — sunspots — as well as bright regions called faculae. Sunspots form where the Sun’s magnetic field bubbles up, creating pockets of cooler, less luminous plasma.
Getting these spacecraft to their destination will be a challenge The thriftiest path to get to Uranus, a trajectory called a Hohmann transfer that’s been used for other missions aimed elsewhere in ...