There are some strange types of exoplanets that have no counterpart in our solar system. One of these types are super puff planets. These special balls have larger radii than Neptune, but only a few Earth masses. This means that…
Most objects that astronomers and astrophysicists study have existed for billions of years. Things like supermassive black holes, the Milky Way, and even the Sun and Earth predate humanity by billions of years.
But not the Crab…
A strange lack of stellar orbits around the core of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) puzzled astronomers for decades. In addition, the SMC has a strange, irregular shape and exhibits a tidal current. Now a team of observers led by…
This is part 4 of a series on topological defects. Read parts 1, 2 and 3.
That what? Yes, the Vortons. It's not an anime monster hunting show. It is not an AI startup company. It's a... it's a thing. I find.
Listen, what I'm about…
The International Space Station (ISS), which has been continuously occupied for 26 years, is approaching retirement. By 2030, all participating space agencies will bring their astronauts home for the last time, and the station will…
Europe is not supposed to look the way it does. Jupiter's icy moon is marked by a chaotic patchwork of rugged terrain, crisscrossing ridges and disturbed surface regions, suggesting that something dynamic is happening beneath its…
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted the asteroid moon Dimorphos, which orbits the larger asteroid Didymos, in September 2022. The purpose of this mission was to test the kinetic impactor method, a…
