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Are dark dwarfs lurking in the heart of the Milky Way?
Do dark dwarfs - theoretical dwarf stars made of dark matter - exist in our galaxy? New research suggests how and where to find them.
July 16, 2025
Life on Venus? Exciting new VERVE mission could find it
Could there be life on Venus? A new probe concept from the UK would hitch a ride with the EnVision mission and look for biosignature gases in Venus' atmosphere.
July 14, 2025
New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago
New Horizons flew past distant Pluto 10 years ago in 2015. It changed forever the way we perceive this outermost world and its moons.
July 13, 2025
Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS might be oldest comet yet
Astronomers have modeled the path of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS through the Milky Way galaxy. They said the comet might be 7 billion years old.
July 11, 2025
A deep-space navigation 1st, from New Horizons
New Horizons - which visited Pluto - has now performed a deep-space navigation 1st, determining its own position via star images.
July 11, 2025
Is the Milky Way teeming with satellite galaxies?
Astronomers used new models and simulations of the Milky Way to show our galaxy should have 80 to 100 more satellite galaxies than we've spotted.
July 10, 2025
NASA’s DART mission unleashed a blitz of boulders into space
Space rocks ejected during the DART mission carried 3 times more momentum than the spacecraft itself. This factor could influence planetary defense missions.
July 9, 2025
Probing the Cosmic Dark Ages from the far side of the moon
Researchers are planning the CosmoCube mission to travel to the far side of the moon, an area of radio silence, to listen to whispers from the cosmic Dark Ages.
July 9, 2025
Small planets are common around small stars, says new study
A team of astronomers led by Heidelberg University in Germany have found that small planets like Earth are common around small, low-mass red dwarf stars.
July 9, 2025
Airport radar could signal our existence to aliens
Airport radar leaks electromagnetic energy into space. These signals are strong enough that aliens 200 light-years away would be able to detect our presence.
July 8, 2025
