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September 11, 2019

Water detected on potentially 'habitable' exoplanet for first time, scientists say

Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a 鈥渟uper-Earth鈥� exoplanet with potentially habitable temperatures. The discovery, which is being touted as a milestone, could have major implications in the search for life outside the Solar System.

September 6, 2019

2 giant blobs at the core of our galaxy are spewing radiation. Scientists don't know how they got there.

In 2010, astronomers working with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope announced the discovery of two giant blobs. These blobs were centered on the core of the Milky Way galaxy, but they extended above and below the plane of our galactic home for over 25,000 light-years. Their origins are still a mystery, but however they got there, they are emitting copious amounts of high-energy radiation.

September 6, 2019

NASA discovers mysterious green light that quickly disappeared

NASA has spotted something mysterious in deep space that it can't quite explain 鈥� bright flashes of green and blue spots that appeared and聽disappeared in a cosmic second.

September 5, 2019

Meet the 'giant elephant trunks,' mysterious cosmic structures 10 times bigger than the 'pillars of creation'

Ursa Major, the Tadpole Galaxy, the Crab Nebula 鈥� when it comes to naming objects in space, it sometimes seems like astronomers wish they'd gone into zoology. Continuing in this long tradition, a researcher has recently identified mammoth column-shaped structures carved from gas and dust that he has called Giant Elephant's Trunks.

September 4, 2019

Intense ammonia storms on Jupiter are messing up the planet's belts

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is perhaps most famous for its giant Red Spot, a continuous storm that has been observed since 1830. But now, new powerful storms have started on the gas giant and they are聽disrupting the planet's belts.

September 4, 2019

NASA captures incredible image of dying star in deep space

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to snap an incredible picture of a dying star in the Gemini constellation.

September 2, 2019

Monstrous space explosions may be showering nearby galaxy in gold

Mergers of this magnitude are so violent they rattle the fabric of space-time, releasing gravitational waves that spread through the cosmos like ripples on a pond. These mergers also fuel cataclysmic explosions that create heavy metals in an instant, showering their galactic neighborhood in hundreds of planets' worth of gold and platinum, the authors of the new study said in a statement. (Some scientists suspect that all the gold and platinum on Earth formed in explosions like these, thanks to ancient neutron-star mergers close to our galaxy.)

August 30, 2019

Darth Vader's birthplace found? Evidence of dangerous volcano, lava world spotted in deep space

Researchers believe they have discovered what they describe as "the first volcanically active exomoon," a celestial body eerily reminiscent of the tiny, fiery "Star Wars" planet, Mustafar, where Anakin Skywalker turned into Darth Vader.

August 30, 2019

Astronomers baffled by 'cosmic mountain ranges' jutting through the Milky Way

To us, the night sky may look like a random splattering of stars, but astronomers are learning that in some regions of our galaxy, stars have clumped into features that resemble ones on Earth 鈥� streams, waves, arches and mountain ridges.

August 29, 2019

NASA's long-delayed James Webb telescope is finally assembled for the first time

Nearly a year after it was supposed to launch, NASA has finally assembled the James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.