NASA's TESS Exoplanet Mission Finds 1st Earth-Size Alien World By Mike Wall The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite spotted the planet, as well as a weird "sub-Neptune" world, circling the star HD 21749, which lies about 53 light-years from Earth.
The Moon Loses Water When Meteoroids Smack the Lunar Surface By Charles Q. Choi Meteoroid impacts regularly liberate puffs of water vapor from the moon, suggesting that minuscule amounts of water may lurk just under the entire lunar surface, a new study finds.
Of Mice and Microgravity: How Spacefaring Rodents Adapt to Life in Space (Video) By Charles Q. Choi Mice on Earth may like running in wheels, but mice in space apparently take advantage of the microgravity to run in circles by bouncing off the walls.
LIGO Is Up and Running Again and Already Spotted Two Possible Black Hole Mergers By Meghan Bartels Within two weeks of beginning its third observation period, the LIGO project has spotted the gravitational-wave signatures of what could be another two black hole mergers.
It Rains on the Sun (Just Not the Way You Think) By Samantha Mathewson Astronomers have detected "plasma rain" pouring down over the solar surface, which may explain why the sun's outer atmosphere is so much hotter than the star's surface.
There Are Bacteria and Fungi All Over the Space Station, and Now We Know What They Are By Elizabeth Howell Just like on Earth, there is a robust population of bacteria and fungi on the International Space Station (ISS) — and a new study catalogues its exact composition.
Stargazing T. Rex Gets a 67-Million-Year-Old View of the Night Sky By Michael Dhar Even an extremely dead apex predator deserves a beautiful view of the night sky — particularly one that reminds them of home.
Physicists Scramble to Understand the Extreme Crystals Hiding Inside Giant, Alien Planets By Rafi Letzter Planetary scientists are calling on mineral physicists to help them figure out the strange chemistry going on inside super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.
The Sun Is Spitting Out 'Lava Lamp Blobs' 500 Times the Size of Earth By Brandon Specktor The blobs are real, they’re chock full of charged particles and they’re heading our way several times each day.
3 Huge Questions the Black Hole Image Didn't Answer By Rafi Letzter Almost nothing in the black hole image surprised astrophysicists. These are the three biggest mysteries it left unsolved, and two questions it did answer.
Possible 2nd Planet Spotted Around Proxima Centauri By Mike Wall Proxima c is just a candidate world for now.
Black Holes Are Awesome. Why Are Their Names Usually So Boring? By Mindy Weisberger A black hole was recently the first to be captured in a close-up image, and in another first, it received a name that's a lot more interesting than the ones that usually identify black holes.
NASA Chooses SpaceX to Launch Asteroid-Walloping Mission By Mike Wall A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft in June 2021, agency officials announced Thursday (April 11).
Exploring the Moon in April: A Night-to-Night Description By Joe Rao This will be a great week to study the ever-changing lunar landscape with a telescope or even just a pair of binoculars.
'Black Hole Hunters' Shows Epic Chase to Capture First Images By Elizabeth Howell From frigid Antarctica to a high-altitude location in Chile, a new documentary takes viewers around the world to capture the first black hole images.
See the X-ray Neighborhood of the First-Ever Black Hole Photo in This Space Telescope View By Doris Elin Salazar The orange speckles in a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory add another dimension to the first-ever image of a black hole.
All Your Questions About the New Black Hole Image Answered By Yasemin Saplakoglu Yesterday, Earthlings first laid eyes on an actual image of a black hole — turning what lived only in our collective imaginations into concrete reality.
