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Enceladus may naturally concentrate biosignatures in ice grains, while experiments show microbes can tolerate its unusual ocean chemistry.
Two studies suggest Saturn’s moon could both support methane-producing microbes and deliver concentrated traces of biology into space.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission found that Bennu shares a distinctive isotopic fingerprint with asteroid Ryugu and rare CI carbonaceous chondrites.
SpaceAsteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thoughtJoseph Shavit
Artist's visualization of an early galaxy and its surrounding gaseous environment. The orange structures represent metal-enriched gas being expelled from the galaxy, illustrating how young galaxies began dispersing heavy elements into their surroundings within the universe's first 500 million years. The visualization is based on publicly available FIRE-2 cosmological simulation data and is not a direct telescope image.
SpaceJWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and lifeJoseph Shavit
The Moon is magnetically quiet today, but a buried volcanic structure on its far side may preserve evidence of a very different past.
SpaceBuried volcanic structure suggests that our Moon once had a powerful magnetic fieldJoseph Shavit
The illustration shows how Jupiter uses a series of regions called shocklets to interact with the solar wind and slow it before it reaches the planet’s main bow shock.
SpaceNASA’s Juno reveals how Jupiter’s giant magnetic shield absorbs the solar windJoseph Shavit
Astronomers found a small planet orbiting backward around a red dwarf, possibly revealing a second generation of planet-forming material.
SpaceAstronomers discover a strange planet circling its red dwarf star in the wrong directionJoseph Shavit
Astronomers traced auroral radio bursts directly to Beta Pictoris b, revealing the first direct magnetic-field measurement of an exoplanet.
DiscoveriesSouth Africa’s MeerKAT array detects the first radio signal directly from an exoplanetJoseph Shavit
A camper’s map search led scientists to a likely 25-kilometer impact crater in Quebec, with evidence pointing to a 390-million-year-old strike.
SpaceAmateur astronomer leads scientists to a massive 390-million-year-old impact crater in QuebecJoshua Shavit
An overhead, close-up view of McGetchin crater that was taken on Dec. 5, 2025, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC).
SpaceNASA discovers a massive new lunar impact that blasted a 728-foot crater into the MoonJoseph Shavit
Supermassive and stellar black holes may launch compact jets at the same critical feeding rate near 2% of the Eddington limit.
SpaceStellar destruction reveals a universal rule for black hole jet formationJoseph Shavit
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently observed IC 348, a star-forming region just 1,000 light-years away from Earth. Webb's sharp vision revealed tiny brown dwarfs, some just twice Jupiter's mass, and young stars ejecting powerful jets crashing into surrounding gas and dust.
SpaceWebb finds brown dwarfs barely twice Jupiter’s mass, challenging star-formation modelsJoseph Shavit
A physicist outlines how laser-driven nanocraft could someday reach a nearby black hole and test gravity directly.
SpaceScientists outline how spacecraft could reach a nearby black hole within a centuryJoseph Shavit
Visualization of the simulation by ATERUI III showing a rapidly growing black hole surrounded by gas. Red indicates areas of higher temperature.
SpaceSupercomputer simulations may finally explain Webb’s mysterious Little Red DotsJoseph Shavit
Elias 2-24 b is less than 1 million years old, challenging models of how quickly giant planets can form far from their stars.
SpaceAstronomers discover a baby planet less than 1 million years oldJoseph Shavit
Webb caught opposite changes in Chariklo’s two narrow rings, challenging the idea that small-body rings remain stable.
SpaceJWST finds evidence that Chariklo’s rings are changing faster than astronomers expectedJoseph Shavit
Mercury may have shrunk up to 30% more than estimated because crater debris hides wrinkles created as the planet cooled.
SpaceMercury’s cratered surface has been hiding evidence of a much smaller planetJoseph Shavit
Tiny changes in the Moon’s orbit could reveal gravitational waves in a frequency range that existing observatories struggle to detect.
SpaceScientists find a new way to search for gravitational waves using the MoonJoseph Shavit