NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has, for the 1st time, observed two kinds of auroras in Mars' atmosphere at the same time. A massive solar storm caused the light show.
Astronomers said this week the Webb telescope has viewed a fiery hourglass star. Within the hourglass, they see an edge-on disk, where new planets are forming.
Stars in our Milky Way galaxy move in a more or less orderly way. But a star that moves differently from the general stream of stars is known as a runaway star.
A new study suggests the reason we haven't found intelligent civilizations in the galaxy is that such civilizations might not have survived their Great Filter.
The Keck Planet Finder instrument on the Keck 1 Telescope in Hawaii has achieved 1st light. It will search for habitable Earth-sized planets around other stars.
New computer simulations show that most gold-rich stars were formed in low-mass dwarf galaxies that merged with our Milky Way galaxy some 10 billion years ago.