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A Giant Mirror Made of Liquid—Floating in Space? Meet the Future of Telescopes Imagine a telescope so massive its mirror stretches 50 meters across—wider than…

Laika Laika, a mixed-breed dog, was the first living being in orbit. She was launched on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957.…

The daisy world model, a conceptual framework illustrating how life can regulate a planet’s environment, has inspired new methods to detect self-regulating “exo-daisy worlds” (eDWs)…

Scientists have solved the long-standing mystery of Uranus’s cooling thermosphere, attributing the phenomenon to long-term changes in the solar wind—the flow of charged particles and…

Astronomers have identified a unique multi-planet system, K2-360, featuring an ultra-dense “super-Earth” and an outer planetary companion. This discovery, published in Scientific Reports on November…

Astronomers have discovered a unique astronomical system where two galaxies are perfectly aligned to form a compound gravitational lens, marking the first observation of such…

A team of physicists has proposed a groundbreaking experiment aimed at determining whether gravity exhibits quantum properties when measured, potentially providing insights into one of…

Cornell scientists are pioneering a library of spectral signatures based on basalt rock samples to help analyze the composition of rocky exoplanets and detect potential…