Nearby star's music sparks a surprising discovery

On May 6, 2025, an international team of astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii said it has listened to the “music” of a nearby star. 

Webb Observes Dynamic Infrared Aurorae on Jupiter

Now, the unique capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope are providing new insights into the Jovian aurorae.

New Signals Hint at a Lost Ocean of Water Concealed Within Mars

Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the Red Planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in the crust.

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit

The half-tonne Soviet vehicle malfunctioned after its launch in 1972 and never made it out of Earth's orbit for the next 53 years.

A speeding pulsar may have broken this cosmic bone

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the Milky Way.

Giant Impacts Could Trigger Seismic Vibrations Lasting Millions of Years

The early Solar System was like a debris field where objects smashed into each other in cascades of collisions.

JWST reveals secrets of a sub-Neptune exoplanet

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

The Coldest Planet Ever Seen Is Circling a Stellar Corpse

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any world whose light has been directly observed.

Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy

Most of the lights in the new JWST-Hubble composite image are not bright stars, but galaxies, stretching back almost as far across space-time as the beginning of the Universe.

'Super-Earths' May Be Surprisingly Common, Scientists Reveal

Earth-like exoplanets might be more common throughout the Milky Way than previously believed, astronomers report in a new study.

Circinus West: A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured with fabricated Dark Energy Camera - one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world. 

Induced atmospheric vibration could have caused blackouts in Europe

Whatever caused the blackout in Spain and Portugal, it highlights the vulnerabilities in some electricity grids.

Eos: Huge nearby cloud in space was invisible - until now

Eos is a crescent-shaped molecular cloud about 300 light-years from our solar system. It resides on the edge of the Local Bubble, a huge “cavity” in space filled with gas, which is about 1,000 light-years across.

Asteroid Vesta may be a fragment of a lost world

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as the crust.

Magnetar 'Starquakes' Could Forge Gold in Space, Scientists Discover

Scientists have long been trying to determine how elements heavier than iron, including gold and platinum, were first created and scattered through the Universe, and new research may give us another part of the answer: magnetars.