Your Guide to the Anomalous Universe

The universe is a deeply vexing place. Every breakthrough we make in our understanding of it begets more mysteries about how all this (gestures wildly) actually happened. In the new book Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe, experimental physicist Harry Cliff describes a handful of the most confounding phenomena at … Read more

Double Plumes Spotted on Jupiter’s Cantankerous Volcanic Moon

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured new images of Jupiter’s moon Io during its latest flyby, coming within an eerily close distance of the most volcanically active world in the solar system for a second time in less than two months. The close encounter also shows what appears to be a pair of plumes erupting from the … Read more

Juno Spacecraft Gears Up for Closest Look at Jupiter’s Tormented Moon

NASA’s curious Jupiter probe is getting chummier with the planet’s most erratic moon, Io. The Juno spacecraft will carry out the closest encounter any mission has had with the volcanic moon in over 20 years, collecting valuable clues about its mysterious activity. Freewrite Alpha Is the Little, Expensive E-Typewriter That Could Juno will make its … Read more

Finally, a Telescope Named ‘Einstein’ Is Heading to Space

The Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitational waves. Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023 Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, and Webb. Undoubtedly … Read more

Webb Spots Second Ancient Supernova in Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy

Last month, astronomers focused the Webb Space Telescope on the galaxy MRG-M0138 and found something surprising: a supernova in the ancient universe, magnified for your viewing pleasure by the gravitational lensed galaxy. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope When stars die, they release a huge amount of energy which astronomers can observe as a … Read more

Our Earliest Close-Ups of the Planets Versus Today’s Best Shots

Left: Pioneer 10’s view of Jupiter in March 1973. Right: Webb Telescope’s view of Jupiter in July 2022. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt For centuries, astronomers were limited to ground-based observations of the planets, but now we use spacecraft to capture close-up views of our neighboring worlds. Excitingly, … Read more

The Hubble Telescope Just Sized Up an Earth-Sized Exoplanet

The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass. Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of Creation The world is named LTT 1445Ac, and it was discovered in 2022 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The world orbits a red dwarf … Read more

You’ve Never Seen Jupiter Look So Much Like Cotton Candy

You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, as orange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope At UV wavelengths, Jupiter’s clouds appear in bright pinks, … Read more

NASA slammed into an asteroid. Hubble simply noticed a spectacular impact.

NASA’s unprecedented asteroid experiment remains to be churning out outcomes. Final 12 months in a mission known as DART, the house company deliberately slammed a sacrificial spacecraft into an asteroid known as Dimorphos, which was 7 million miles from Earth. Scientists hoped to show civilization might alter the trail of a menacing asteroid — ought … Read more

Hubble snaps a seemingly peaceable galaxy. Do not be fooled.

A spiral galaxy within the constellation Pegasus shines from a distance like bone china, a saucer daintily tilted in area. This area of glowing stars some 184 million light-years from our photo voltaic system could appear the image of tranquility, however astronomers have turned their consideration to the dwarf galaxy to review the aftermath of … Read more