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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.
Tiny worlds in IC 348 reveal disks and unusual atmospheric chemistry at the extreme lower boundary of star formation.
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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
A million-person Moon city could exhaust even a generous lunar water supply in about a century despite 98% recycling.
SpaceThe moon could support permanent settlements, just not the giant cities Elon Musk envisionsJoshua Shavit
New models show how a hypothetical Venus moon could have spiraled inward and disappeared without another catastrophic impact.
SpaceVenus may have swallowed its own moon, new models findsJoseph Shavit
Scientists find Earth’s response to solar storms may not have a limit, suggesting stronger risks to modern technology.
SpaceExtreme solar storms could hit Earth harder than scientists expectedJoseph Shavit
A catalog of 2,884 Type Ia supernovae strengthens hints that dark energy may change as the universe evolves.
Space2,884 exploding stars deepen the mystery of dark energyJoseph Shavit
CERN recreated high-energy cosmic ray collisions with oxygen, exposing major gaps in models of particle showers in Earth’s atmosphere.
SpaceCERN recreates cosmic ray collisions to reveal what happens when space particles hit EarthJoseph Shavit
Artificial eye lenses exposed outside the ISS reveal how cataract surgery supplies might survive future missions to Mars.
HealthFuture Mars astronauts may need eye surgery millions of miles from EarthJoseph Shavit
Thousands of dead satellites, spent rocket components and fragments of spacecraft circle Earth at tremendous speeds.
SpaceScientists develop a way to capture space junk using robots and spinning magnetsJoseph Shavit
Solar models suggest the young Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth whose chemical fingerprint could remain inside it today.
SpaceA missing super-Earth may have been swallowed up by the Sun billions of years agoJoseph Shavit
A new SETI framework proposes searching Moon dust for microscopic technological debris that may have crossed the galaxy billions of years ago.
SpaceAlien technology could be hiding as microscopic dust on the MoonJoseph Shavit
New simulations suggest geological strength let a hot Theia produce an almost intact proto-Moon within hours of its collision with Earth.
SpaceThe Moon may have formed almost intact within hours of Theia smashing into EarthJoseph Shavit