Jake Currie
What Baby Planets with the Density of Styrofoam Reveal
New research leads to important clues about how the most common planets are formed
Astronomers Witness Star Exploding at the Edge of the Universe
It’s the most distant supernova recorded to date
Milky Way’s Twin Causes Rethink of Galactic Evolution
The newly discovered precocious young galaxy appears to have formed in record time
Everything We Thought We Knew About How Stardust Spreads Across the Cosmos Is Wrong
An analysis of stardust 180 light-years from Earth had some illuminating lessons
Saturn’s Rings Are Thicker Than We Thought
New research points to a wide band of particles, invisible to telescopes
Did a Rogue Planet Bring Order to Our Solar System?
New models suggest a celestial bypasser left us with the current orbital lineup
Monster Stars Roamed the Cosmos at the Dawn of Time
“A bit like dinosaurs on Earth—they were enormous and primitive”
Cosmic Collision Caught on Camera
Astronomers witnessed the aftermath of not one but two collisions in space
Titan May Not Host a Massive Ocean After All
But the moon’s slushy interior could still harbor pockets of life-sustaining water
How Earth’s Atmosphere Reached the Moon
And what this might mean for colonizing other worlds
Astronomers Observe Spacetime Whirlpool for the First Time
This theoretical phenomenon was discovered after being predicted by Einstein more than a century ago
