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Cotton-Candy Exoplanets: Two for the Price of One!
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (675+ words) By: Colin Stuart July 2, 2026 0 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has found two "super-puff" planets in the same system, each one as light as cotton candy. Astronomers have discovered two giant exoplanets in the same system, each one as light as…...
NASA Announces Four New Lunar Lander Missions for 2028
21+ hour, 56+ min ago (477+ words) By: David Dickinson July 1, 2026 0 NASA has awarded contracts to three aerospace companies for four lunar landers to launch in 2028. On June 30th, NASA announced additional details about its new plans for the Moon. The agency announced new contracts at a press…...
Radio Astronomers Measure a Brighter Sky Than They Expected
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (644+ words) By: Govert Schilling June 29, 2026 0 Astronomers have underestimated just how bright the low-frequency radio sky is, new measurements show. Astronomers have been underestimating the brightness of the low-frequency radio sky. Precision measurements by Australian and Italian radio astronomers reveal that the…...
Exploding Stars Sprinkled Ancient Earth With Radioactive Iron and Plutonium
1+ week, 2+ day ago (357+ words) By: Jan Hattenbach June 23, 2026 0 Exploding stars have left their radioactive mark on our planet. Now scientists have found more evidence of a particularly violent event in Earth's more ancient past. Do you find the thought of radioactive plutonium raining down…...
Double Whammy: Binary Supernova in Gemini
1+ week, 2+ day ago (414+ words) By: Govert Schilling June 22, 2026 0 New analysis reveals a tight relationship between two supernova remnants in the outer Milky Way. Astronomers have identified the first known binary supernova remnant. According to a team led by Miltiadis Michailidis (Stanford University), IC 443 and…...
Lucy's First Asteroid Flyby Sheds Light on a Double-lobed Asteroid
1+ week, 4+ day ago (218+ words) By: Emily Lakdawalla June 20, 2026 0 The neck that joins the lobes, however, is younger than that. Its surface is much smoother and bears far fewer craters. The Lucy team estimates it's less than 20 million years old. How can the two lobes…...
This Week's Sky at a Glance, June 19 " 28
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1762+ words) By: Alan Mac Robert June 19, 2026 0 The Moon is a thick crescent in the west, left of Regulus. A telescope this evening shows the Moon's terminator crossing, from north to south, Mare Frigoris, Lacus Somniorum, Mare Tranquillitatis, and Mare Nectaris, as…...
Shadow Blaster" Galaxy Might Have Sent High-Energy Neutrino to Earth
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (728+ words) By: Govert Schilling June 18, 2026 0 A star-forming galaxy in the early universe might have sent a ghostly particle known as a neutrino crashing into the ice at Earth's South Pole, after an 11 billion-year journey through space. Astronomers say they've traced a…...
See Venus Disappear in Broad Daylight on June 17th
2+ week, 3+ day ago (199+ words) On June 17th, much of North America can watch the Moon occult Venus in the daytime sky. All you need are binoculars. Fresh from its dance with Jupiter earlier this month, Venus finds itself at the center of attention again. On…...
Did A Moon-Size Planet Grow Fast and Die Young in the Early Solar System?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (482+ words) A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert could be a fragment of a Moon-size body that met an early, violent end. Did A Moon-Size Planet Grow Fast and Die Young in the Early Solar System? A rare meteorite recovered…...