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Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight
Brown dwarfs are like stars, but too small to ignite fusion in their cores and so shine as stars do. If you saw one, it wouldn't be brown. It'd be magenta.
September 7, 2016
Listen to Jupiter’s auroras
Plus more cool stuff from the Juno spacecraft's August 27 closest-yet flyby of Jupiter.
September 6, 2016
Update on Dawn mission to Ceres
The Dawn spacecraft is still orbiting Ceres. It went into an extended mission mode on July 1. Some mission highlights and current thinking, here.
September 6, 2016
SDO sees a double eclipse
Cool video! On September 1, the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory caught both Earth and the moon crossing in front of the sun.
September 5, 2016
Philae comet lander … found!
With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, the Philae comet lander has been found wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
September 5, 2016
A quasar Milky Way six million years ago?
As the first human ancestors walked the Earth, our galaxy's central black hole might have been in the process of blasting away most of the galaxy's normal matter.
September 4, 2016
Space X explosion at Cape Canaveral
No injuries in Thursday's explosion on a SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral. But Facebook's planned satellite is no more.
September 1, 2016
New record for farthest galaxy cluster
A new record for the most distant galaxy cluster has been set. Astronomers say the cluster, 11.1 billion light-years away, might have been caught right after birth.
September 1, 2016
No alien signal, says SETI astronomer
A strong signal from a sunlike star sparked speculation this week that we might - at last - have heard from an alien civilization. Now astronomers say ... no.
August 31, 2016
Will Planet 9 spell doom for solar system?
No, not Nibiru. Theoretical astronomers describe how a hypothetical Planet 9 could hurtle Jupiter into interstellar space when the sun dies, billions of years from now.
August 31, 2016
