November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 by Cody

Insight Mission to Mars

Could Advanced Civilizations Communicate like Fireflies December 19, 2025
In a new paper, a team of researchers explores how non-human species (in this case, fireflies) could inform new approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Did Astronomers Just Find a ‘Superkilonova’ Double Explosion? Maybe. December 19, 2025
Astronomers may have just seen the first ever ‘superkilonova,’ a combination of a supernova and a kilonova. These are two very different kinds of stellar explosions, and if this discovery stands, it could change the way scientists understand stellar birth and death.
Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients Are Likely Large Black Holes Shredding Their Massive Companions December 18, 2025
In 2024, astronomers discovered the brightest Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) ever observed. LFBOTs are extremely bright flashes of blue light that shine for brief periods before fading away. New analysis of this record-breaking burst, which includes observations from the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, challenges all […]
The JWST Found A Jekyll-and-Hyde Galaxy In The Early Universe December 18, 2025
In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang – a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in visible and even ultraviolet light but transforms into a cosmic beast when observed at infrared wavelengths. This […]
Using Bent Light to Map Complex Planetary Architectures December 18, 2025
With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man’s Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a scientist more generally - but in astronomy that saying is more true than many other disciplines, as many discoveries are entirely dependent on the technology - the telescope, imager, or processing algorithm, used […]