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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.

Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought

Returned asteroid grains link Bennu, Ryugu and CI meteorites to a mixed dust reservoir shaped by ice and the young Jupiter.

Joseph ShavitupdaPublished Sep 26, 2026 9:07 AM PDT

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.

Space JWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and life Joseph Shavit

The Moon is magnetically quiet today, but a buried volcanic structure on its far side may preserve evidence of a very different past.

Space Buried volcanic structure suggests that our Moon once had a powerful magnetic field Joseph 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.

Space NASA’s Juno reveals how Jupiter’s giant magnetic shield absorbs the solar wind Joseph Shavit

Astronomers found a small planet orbiting backward around a red dwarf, possibly revealing a second generation of planet-forming material.

Space Astronomers discover a strange planet circling its red dwarf star in the wrong direction Joseph Shavit

Astronomers traced auroral radio bursts directly to Beta Pictoris b, revealing the first direct magnetic-field measurement of an exoplanet.

Discoveries South Africa’s MeerKAT array detects the first radio signal directly from an exoplanet Joseph 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.

Space Amateur astronomer leads scientists to a massive 390-million-year-old impact crater in Quebec Joshua 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).

Space NASA discovers a massive new lunar impact that blasted a 728-foot crater into the Moon Joseph Shavit

Supermassive and stellar black holes may launch compact jets at the same critical feeding rate near 2% of the Eddington limit.

Space Stellar destruction reveals a universal rule for black hole jet formation Joseph 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.

Space Webb finds brown dwarfs barely twice Jupiter’s mass, challenging star-formation models Joseph Shavit

A physicist outlines how laser-driven nanocraft could someday reach a nearby black hole and test gravity directly.

Space Scientists outline how spacecraft could reach a nearby black hole within a century Joseph Shavit

Visualization of the simulation by ATERUI III showing a rapidly growing black hole surrounded by gas. Red indicates areas of higher temperature.

Space Supercomputer simulations may finally explain Webb’s mysterious Little Red Dots Joseph 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.

Space Astronomers discover a baby planet less than 1 million years old Joseph Shavit

Webb caught opposite changes in Chariklo’s two narrow rings, challenging the idea that small-body rings remain stable.

Space JWST finds evidence that Chariklo’s rings are changing faster than astronomers expected Joseph Shavit

Mercury may have shrunk up to 30% more than estimated because crater debris hides wrinkles created as the planet cooled.

Space Mercury’s cratered surface has been hiding evidence of a much smaller planet Joseph Shavit

Tiny changes in the Moon’s orbit could reveal gravitational waves in a frequency range that existing observatories struggle to detect.

Space Scientists find a new way to search for gravitational waves using the Moon Joseph Shavit

A million-person Moon city could exhaust even a generous lunar water supply in about a century despite 98% recycling.

Space The moon could support permanent settlements, just not the giant cities Elon Musk envisions Joshua Shavit