If we ever intend to send crewed missions to Mars, as NASA and China plan for the...
Universe Today
When the James Webb Space Telescope pointed its powerful instruments toward the early Universe, scientists were surprised...
During the eight years since it was launched, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made six close flybys...
Oxidized iron dominates the Martian colour palette. The dusty reds, ochres, browns, and tans give the planet...
The Sun is such a constant in our lives that it can be difficult to imagine our...
If some aspects of cosmic topology turn out to be true, the idea that starships might voyage...
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers decoded the weather...
Stars go through a host of changes as they evolve, but most of the time, those changes...
Catching the dance of Jupiter’s major moons though late 2026. It’s that time of the decade again....
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first looked at the darkest regions of the sky, it...
If we are ever to have a permanent presence on Mars, we will have to learn to...
Thanks to the Mariner 10, MESSENGER, and BepiColombo missions, scientists have learned a great deal about Mercury,...
Binary stars are born in the same cloud of molecular gas, and should share the same chemical...
Nature doesn’t conform to our definitions of things. Brown dwarfs are a prime example of this. They’re...
The formation of our solar system was a complex process, but there are two things we know...
The planet Saturn is arguably the most recognizable planetary object in the entire solar system because of...
You don’t hear it much anymore, but people used to refer to Venus as Earth’s ‘sister planet’....
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope hasn’t yet reached its Sun-Earth L2 orbit and it already has...
In theory, the structure of a black hole is amazingly simple. It depends on only three things:...
Most stars in the Milky Way are binary stars. Binary relationships shape the futures of the stars...