Giant liquid mirrors could revolutionize the hunt for habitable worlds
Concept art of Fluidic Telescope—FLUTE. Credit: NASA Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger...
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Discover the many fascinating moons of our Solar System – Astronomy Now
In an age where space exploration often feels reserved for scientists and astronauts, National Geographics The Atlas of Moons seeks...
Enceladus’s highly alkaline subsurface ocean may affect search for life
Illustration of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy...
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date
Infographic on the binary binary black hole merger that produced the GW231123 signal. Credit: Simona J. Miller/Caltech The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK)...
The Lithium Problem – Astronomy Now
Artist impression of the Big Bang. Image NASA/HST One of the most significant challenges to the Big Bang hypothesis that...
‘Space ice’ is less like water than previously thought
Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice. Many tiny crystallites (white) are concealed in the amorphous material (blue)....
Webb scratches beyond the surface of the Cat’s Paw for third anniversary
Cat’s Paw Nebula (annotated). Credit: European Space Agency To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the...
Saturn’s Rings to “Disappear” – Astronomy Now
Saturn’s iconic rings are set to seemingly vanish from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the...
Reviving search for extraterrestrial intelligence with high-energy astronomy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what...
Astronomers discover brightest galaxy during ‘cosmic noon’
JWST image of a Little Red Dot. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Matthee (ISTA), R. Mackenzie (ETH Zurich), D. Kashino...
