Articles by

Lisa Grossman

Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe...

JWST spots the first known ‘steam world’

This exoplanet’s atmosphere is going full steam ahead. A planet beyond our solar system called GJ 9827d...

NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for one planetary astronomer

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy...

Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

Dozens of fugitive stars were caught fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the...

Europa Clipper is launching to solve an alien mystery

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could...

50 years ago, satellites threatened astronomers’ view of the cosmos

Satellites hampering radio astronomy — Science News, October 5, 1974 In the past, the...

Betelgeuse has a tiny companion star hidden in plain sight

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two...

Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black...