Keith Cooper
Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor in the United Kingdom, and has a degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Manchester. He's the author of "The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020) and has written articles on astronomy, space, physics and astrobiology for a multitude of magazines and websites.
Latest articles by Keith Cooper
The James Webb Space Telescope never disproved the Big Bang. Here's how that falsehood spread.
By Keith Cooper published
The story of how JWST's images of distant galaxies and the words of an astrophysicist were misused by science deniers to try and throw shade on the Big Bang.
Lego Icons Galaxy Explorer review
By Keith Cooper published
Review Lego celebrates its 90th anniversary with a new version of a popular Lego Classic Space set – behold the Lego Icons Galaxy Explorer.
UAE's Hope Mars mission discovers patchy new aurora variety over Red Planet
By Keith Cooper published
The new findings indicate that space weather can be more turbulent over Mars than first thought.
The moon's far side could offer a view of the universe even deeper than the James Webb Space Telescope
By Keith Cooper last updated
The potential science from future lunar missions stretches far beyond the moon.
As NASA nears return to the moon with Artemis program, lunar scientists' excitement reaches fever pitch
By Keith Cooper last updated
With NASA's return to the moon with Artemis moving ever closer, lunar scientists look forward to the possibilities for science.
Possible water world spotted orbiting an alien star
By Keith Cooper published
A potentially habitable water-rich world just 100 light-years away from Earth could be one of the best places to search for life.
Perseverance Mars rover finds surprising volcanic rocks in crater that was once a lake
By Keith Cooper published
The surprising discovery of volcanic rocks by NASA's Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater could unlock Mars' climate history and reveal when the Red Planet was wet and potentially habitable.
James Webb Space Telescope will seek clouds of vaporized gems on exoplanets
By Keith Cooper published
Astronomers are looking for clouds made of vaporized gems and metals on faraway exoplanets.
James Webb Space Telescope catches 'imposter' galaxies red-handed
By Keith Cooper last updated
Astronomers have found at least one dusty galaxy masquerading as a high-redshift galaxy, complicating the search for the first galaxies.
Violent supermassive black hole with twisting jet may help Milky Way observations
By Keith Cooper published
The Event Horizon Telescope has imaged the powerful near-light-speed jet of a blazar, and found it to be twisted.
Astronomers catch a super-energetic collision of dead stars
By Keith Cooper published
A distant neutron-star merger unleashed one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts (GRB) ever seen.
South Korea's moonshot will explore lunar magnetic mysteries and more
By Keith Cooper last updated
Set to blast off on Aug. 4, South Korea's pathfinding Danuri mission will measure magnetic anomalies and scan the lunar surface.
James Webb Space Telescope beats its own record with potential most distant galaxies
By Keith Cooper last updated
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have potentially smashed the galaxy redshift record by finding galaxies that existed 200 to 300 million years after the Big Bang.
Early life on Earth and beyond may have been ocean dwellers
By Keith Cooper published
The genetic tree of life suggests that the first life on Earth may have lived underwater, shielded from harmful ultraviolet light from the sun.
Dazzling James Webb Space Telescope image prompts science scramble
By Keith Cooper published
Scientists poring through data from the Webb telescope have discovered 42 images of 19 gravitationally lensed galaxies, which may eventually help us to see the very first galaxies.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers candidates for most distant galaxies yet
By Keith Cooper published
Astronomers have spotted two candidates for the most distant galaxies ever, thanks to the power of a massive gravitational lens.
James Webb Space Telescope's atmosphere studies could provide clues to land and sea on alien worlds
By Keith Cooper published
The James Webb Space Telescope could reveal hints about exoplanet surfaces by studying the planets' atmospheric temperatures and moisture levels.
James Webb Space Telescope detects clouds on a 'hot Jupiter' that we thought had clear skies
By Keith Cooper published
The James Webb Space Telescope is already confounding expectations, showing that we still have much to learn about the atmospheres of "hot Jupiters."
Pluto's moon Charon sports a red polar cap that forms as seasons change
By Keith Cooper published
The red cap on Pluto's moon Charon results when ultraviolet light and the solar wind interact with hydrocarbons and turn them into a soup of organic compounds dubbed tholins.
NASA sounding rockets blasting off to assess Alpha Centauri habitability
By Keith Cooper published
Two sounding rockets are launching with experiments to assess the habitability of Alpha Centauri while also teaching us about how normal the sun is.
The Large Hadron Collider returns in the hunt for new physics
By Keith Cooper published
Switched back on for its third observing run, the LHC will chase down sterile neutrinos, dark matter and deviations from the Standard Model of particle physics.
Could the Large Hadron Collider discover dark matter?
By Keith Cooper published
With the switching back on after a three-year hiatus, CERN's Large Hadron Collider turns its sights toward shedding light on the mysterious dark matter.
10 years after the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists still can't get enough of the 'God particle'
By Keith Cooper published
In 2012, jubilant physicists working on the world's most powerful science experiment announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, a particle scientists had been searching for since 1964.