Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space?

“I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about.”

Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.

A ‘lost planet’ may have given Jupiter and Uranus their moons

New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.

James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren’t sure how

Observations of “Little Red Dot” ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its galaxy? The shocking answer could represent a complete paradigm shift….

Most powerful ‘ghost particle’ ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole

The most energetic “ghost particle” neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, suggesting that these events and their black hole engines are powerful cosmic particle accelerators.

Where did Mercury get its water ice? Maybe from a single slow asteroid impact

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study suggests.

The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy named Loki, and astronomers think they’ve found its remains

Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named “Loki” that eventually became part of our Milky Way.