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Older brown dwarfs are more likely to be lonely
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found older and less massive brown dwarfs tend to be alone with no companions, unlike younger and larger brown dwarfs.
March 31, 2024
5000th comet for sun-observing SOHO spacecraft
Citizen scientists using imagery from the SOHO solar observatory have now discovered their 5000th comet. You can help, too! Join the Sungrazer Project.
March 29, 2024
How 2 billion craters on Mars were created by 1 asteroid
An asteroid created a large Martian crater called Corinto, about 2 million years ago. Debris from the impact also created 2 billion smaller craters on Mars.
March 28, 2024
BREAKING! Milky Way’s black hole in new image
Scientists using the Event Horizon Telescope imaged the polarized light from our Milky Way's black hole for the first time. Learn more about what that means.
March 27, 2024
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
2 new studies suggest the subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa may not be as habitable as previously thought, due to a geologically inactive seafloor.
March 26, 2024
Ice grains from ocean moons could hold tiny traces of life
A study from an international team of scientists shows it might be possible to detect microscopic life in ice grains in plumes of ocean moons like Enceladus.
March 24, 2024
Dark matter study of dwarf galaxies hints at a ‘signal’
Researchers studied nearby, dark-matter dominated dwarf galaxies. They were looking for gamma rays resulting from dark matter annihilation or decay.
March 22, 2024
Jupiter’s stormy weather on display in new Hubble images
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has sent back new images of Jupiter's stormy weather. Hubble monitors the atmospheres of all the giant planets every year.
March 20, 2024
Possible hycean world found by Webb telescope
NASA's Webb Space Telescope has discovered a possible hycean world, with a deep hydrogen atmosphere and a global water ocean. Or is this world too hot?
March 20, 2024
Voyager 1 spacecraft has sent a (partly) decipherable message
The Voyager 1 spacecraft started sending gibberish back to Earth in November. Now engineers have sent it a "poke" and received a message they can decipher.
March 18, 2024
