Adventure to an Asteroid: JAXA’s Hayabusa2 visits Ryugu
Earlier this year, JAXA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid — one that can hopefully tell us about the solar system’s past, and how life on Earth came to be.
Discovery of a star yeeted out of the Milky Way
The fastest Main Sequence star yet probably came from the Galactic Center.
The First Molecule in the Universe
SOFIA observations have detected HeH+ in the planetary nebula NGC 7027, shedding new light on the dawn of chemistry in the universe.
First Photos of a Baby Planet
To understand planet formation, we need to observe newborn planets that are in their earlier stages of development. This is exactly what was discovered around PDS 70 – the first young, forming planet around a protostar of this age. Read more to learn about what we saw, and how we got that data!
Ghosts of Spiral Arms Past
A study of star clusters in the Milky Way has uncovered a peculiar trend in the way they are arranged.
Peas in a Pod?
Neighboring exoplanets appear to come in similar sizes. But is this a result of observational bias?