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Europa has enough oxygen to support a million people
Europa has enough oxygen to support 1 million people a day, but that's less than once thought. This could have implications for habitability in Europa's ocean.
March 13, 2024
Uranus discovered by accident on this date in 1781
William Herschel spotted Uranus in 1781 during a routine survey of the stars. It was the 1st new planet found since ancient times.
March 13, 2024
A message to Europa from the people of Earth
NASA released images of the message to Europa that will be on the Europa Clipper. It contains a microchip with over 2.6 million names submitted by the public.
March 12, 2024
A ‘new star’ from a nova outburst is expected soon
A recurring nova in Corona Borealis - T CrB - will probably appear as a 'new star' and brighten enough to see with the unaided eye sometime in 2024.
March 12, 2024
What are Hubble and Webb looking at right now?
The recently redesigned Space Telescope Live webapp gives up-to-the-minute information about what the Hubble and Webb space telescopes are observing.
March 10, 2024
See dozens of planet-forming disks in groundbreaking survey
A new survey looked at 86 young stars and their planet-forming disks in 3 gas clouds in our own Milky Way. See the wide variety of dusty disks here.
March 6, 2024
1st-ever metal scar on a cannibal star
Astronomers have discovered a metal scar on a cannibal star, a white dwarf or "dead" star. They believe it formed when the star consumed one of its planets.
March 5, 2024
Earth-passing asteroid seen in new radar images
NASA scientists used the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California to take images of asteroid 2008 OS7 as it passed by Earth on February 2, 2024.
March 3, 2024
Tatooine exoplanets may be more habitable than we thought
Researchers at Yale University said habitable planets in binary star systems - so-called Tatooine exoplanets - may be more common than previously thought.
February 28, 2024
New moons! Uranus now has 28 and Neptune 16
New moons for Uranus and Neptune! They're the faintest found so far using Earth-based telescopes. Scientists think they are fragments of larger bodies.
February 27, 2024
