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The future is bright for astronomy, and very expensive (op-ed)
Space via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThe Telescope that Ate Astronomy Space telescopes cost a thousand times more per kilogram than...
Escaping Atmospheres: Unraveling the Hydrodynamic Mysteries of Exoplanets
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoIt reveals various mechanisms driving hydrodynamic escape and proposes a new classification method...
Starmus VII hit all the right notes from beginning to end | Astronomy.com
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoThe seventh Starmus Festival took place May 12–17 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was a smashing...
Webb Telescope’s Breakthrough: First Atmospheric Discovery on a Rocky Super-Earth
SciTechDaily· 21 hours agoGas bubbling up from a lava-covered surface on the exoplanet 55 Cancri e may feed an atmosphere rich...
Scientists discover blistering Earth-sized planet that may become historic
TweakTown· 6 days agoA team of astronomers discovered an Earth-sized planet that is being showered in so much radiation...
Stars give tiny planets a gravitational 'squeeze' to strip away their atmospheres
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoModeling distant planets has revealed that tidal forces generated by their parent stars can combine...
Using Balloon-Borne Technology to Probe Deeper Into our Dark Universe
Columbia University News· 5 days agoNASA has awarded Columbia and partners a prestigious grant to launch a particle detector into...
Space junk is raining from the sky. Who's responsible when it hits the Earth?
CBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn March 2022, a couple living in the rural town of São Mateus do Sul, Brazil, were shocked to find...
Young 'cotton candy' exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAstronomers have found that one of the lightest exoplanets ever seen, the young 'cotton candy' world...
NASA should let a commercial mission save Hubble
The Hill· 8 hours agoJared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the recent Inspiration4 commercial space mission and the upcoming Polaris Dawn private space flight,...