Category: Astronomy & Space

New analysis finds red dwarf systems unlikely to host advanced civilizations, urging SETI to focus on sunlike stars and their habitable zones in practice

New research is dramatically sharpening our understanding of one of the universe’s most formidable phenomena: the colossal jets of plasma…

After more than a decade of observation, an international team of astrophysicists has confirmed that the jets of a peculiar…

Bacteria survive a suborbital rocket launch and atmospheric re-entry, with Deinococcus radiodurans showing notable resilience in the EXPORT mission findings

Skywatchers are preparing for a celestial event as the first and brightest supermoon of the year graces the night sky…

Rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 accretes like a star, drawing in six billion tons of gas per second during a magnetospheric outburst observed by VLT and JWST

In a significant demonstration of undergraduate research capabilities, two students from the University of Pittsburgh have successfully developed and deployed…

A new space telescope is preparing to survey the Sun’s closest stellar neighbors, Alpha Centauri A and B, for planets…

A surprising discovery of the molecule phosphine in the atmosphere of a distant, star-like object has introduced a significant new…

Scientists have developed a new method for detecting gravitational waves in the elusive milli-Hertz frequency range, a breakthrough that promises…