Pulsars Rewrite the Rules
For decades, astronomers thought they knew that pulsars broadcast their signatight beams of radio waves fired from near the surface, close to the magnetic poles. A new study of nearly…
How the Solar Wind Really Works
The Sun doesn’t just pump out light and heat, it blasts a continuous stream of charged particles across the Solar System, and that solar wind is far more complex than…
Blocking out the Stellar Lighthouses
Finding another Earth is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time and the biggest obstacle isn’t the distance, it’s the glare. An Earth like planet orbiting a Sun…
A Galactic Wind Caught in the Act
Twelve million light years away, a galaxy is throwing a tantrum on a cosmic scale. M82, the Cigar Galaxy is forming stars at ten times the rate of our own…
Bennu’s Rugged Rocks Explained by Deep Internal Cracks
Asteroids don’t get the love they deserve. They don’t get “cool points” because they’re not a planet or a potential life-harboring moon. They’re “just a bunch of rocks”. But asteroids…
Starfish Space finds a new partner for docking demonstration mission
Starfish Space has changed plans for a docking demonstration mission after its original partner backed out. The post Starfish Space finds a new partner for docking demonstration mission appeared first…
Exomoons Could Be Habitable for Billions of Years, Provided they have Hydrogen Atmospheres
Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS…
Where should we send a real ‘Hail Mary’ spacecraft? A new study has the answers
A new atlas of 45 potentially habitable planets makes us think of the new film “Project Hail Mary,” based on the book by Andy Weir.
Astrophotographer captures spectacular photo of Antennae Galaxies dueling in deep space
The Antennae galaxies are witnessed in the process of merging into a single elliptical galaxy.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 203 — China Rising
On Episode 203 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Namrata Goswami of Johns Hopkins University to examine the potential threats to American…