Latest articles by Stefanie Waldek
Help scientists find new black holes with this free smartphone app
Developed by the Dutch Black Hole Consortium, the Black Hole Finder app allows the public to help sort through thousands of images to identify potential targets of interest.
'Galaxy Zoo' project needs your help classifying tens of thousands of galaxies
The European Space Agency has launched a new citizen science project with Galaxy Zoo to classify tens of thousands of galaxies imaged by the Euclid space telescope.
1st 'hyperspectral' image of aurora borealis reveals true colors of northern lights
Using a high-resolution imaging system in Sweden, Japanese researchers are getting a view of the aurora like never before.
Was life on Earth sparked by cloud-to-ground lightning strikes?
Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes simulated in a biosphere mimicking conditions on a young Earth led to chemical reactions resulting in "remarkable yields" of the building blocks for life.
This mesmerizing NASA animation shows how carbon dioxide moves through Earth's atmosphere (video)
A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.
Can the moon help preserve Earth's endangered species?
A lunar biorepository would use the moon's cold temperatures to keep cryopreserved samples frozen.
These 2 US cities are the most vulnerable to solar storms, scientists say
Geomagnetic storm-induced blackouts may be looming.
NASA just beamed a Missy Elliott song to Venus
"The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” traveled 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) to our neighbor.
The James Webb Space Telescope is studying an exoplanet's eternal day — and eternal night
A tidally locked gas giant experiences eternal sunshine on one side, and eternal darkness on the other.
Newly discovered cave on the moon could house future lunar astronauts
The lava tube is likely one of many on the lunar surface.
Drone racing is helping train AI to autonomously drive spacecraft
ESA and the Delft University of Technology are training neural-network AI systems to race drones in preparation for complicated spacecraft maneuvers.
Europe's Mars sample return orbiter moving ahead despite NASA budget uncertainty
The European Space Agency's Earth Return Orbiter has passed its design review, which validates its technical details and moves the project onto manufacturing and testing.
The early solar system was donut-shaped, meteorite study suggests
Researchers studying iron meteorites suggest that the early solar system took the shape of a donut, not a dartboard as previously thought.
Once-in-a-lifetime star explosion, visible from Earth, could happen any day now
Binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is about to go nova any day now. The recurrent nova explodes approximately every 79 or 80 years.
NASA's Juno probe reveals lava lakes across Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (image)
Infrared images showcase "fire-breathing" lakes all across the Jovian moon.
James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo)
A new James Webb Space Telescope image shows perfectly aligned protostellar outflows in the Serpens Nebula, supporting a long-running theory of stellar formation.
Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot an impostor? Giant storm may not be the original one discovered 350 years ago
Astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed Jupiter's 'Permanent Spot' in 1665, but new research suggests it's a different vortex from today's Great Red Spot.
Could nearby stars have habitable exoplanets? NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory hopes to find out
Astronomers are using the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study stars' radiation and establish the feasibility of exoplanet habitability.
Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
Following a technical error in November 2023, NASA's deep-space explorer has resumed full science operations.
Bark! Meow! Cluck! NASA uses lasers to beam pictures of pet dogs, cats and chickens to the ISS
NASA is testing how infrared light can transfer far more information than radio frequency communications.
Mars meteorites reveal clues about what lies within the Red Planet
Volcanic meteorites from Mars give scientists a glimpse into the planet's structure.
Jupiter's raging gas cyclones may actually mirror Earth's oceans. Here's how
Jupiter and Earth's oceans have more in common than you might think.
Satellite data reveals Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting faster than we thought
The ICEYE satellite constellation has given researchers a peek beneath the glacier, and it's not looking good.
