Keith Cooper

Careful scrutiny of the debris from the impact of NASA's DART mission into Dimorphos has not found any evidence for water ice on the asteroid, nor the residue of thruster fuel from the spacecraft.

An organic compound that's part of the RNA molecules that transmit genetic information in cells has been discovered in samples from the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting the stuff of life came from space.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dazzled us plenty already, but the best is yet to come from the observatory, mission team members say.

Scientists have taken a big step towards figuring out where building blocks of life such as amino acids and amines form in space.

If the huge Jupiter moon Ganymede is more potentially habitable than previously thought, it could alter the end of Europe's JUICE mission.

The acoustically generated force will help astronomers better understand the sun's photosphere and the causes of space weather.

A mass spectrometer called the Orbitrap has been scaled down to fit on astrobiology missions to planets and moons of the solar system.

Gaseous planets close to their star could see their hydrogen atmospheres evaporate, leaving behind helium that could be detected by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The gravitational waves would be weak, but potentially detectable by the next joint observing run of the world's gravitational-wave detectors.

The weather station on NASA's Perseverance rover has chronicled the meteorology above Jezero Crater.

A star has survived a close encounter with a black hole, but the black hole has been able to sneak a second bite.

Neutron-star mergers could create hypermassive neutron stars that are the fastest spinning stars in the universe.

The magnetic fields swept up on the surface of the Local Bubble influence where star formation occurs in the vicinity of the sun.

The first 12 months of the JWST's mission have exceeded all expectations, with some incredible new discoveries that are just the tip of the iceberg of what's to come.

One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe, both near and far.

Scientists may have explained the mysterious distribution of small satellite galaxies around our Milky Way that has long puzzled astronomers, but not everyone is in agreement.