Keith Cooper

JUICE blasted off in April 2023 on a mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moons and learn more about whether they could support life.

Conditions within dwarf galaxies initially produce more stellar-mass black holes than supernova explosions.

The JWST has imaged an intense region of star-formation near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, making findings that could be key to understanding the earliest galaxies.

The rocky exoplanet LTT 1445Ac, located about 22.5 light years away, has been observed transiting its star by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Missing neon in a planet-forming disk of gas and dust indicates a change in radiation that's slowly eroding the disk.

We see these galaxies as they were over 13.45 billion years ago, just between 330 and 350 million years after the Big Bang.

The new spectrograph, named IGRINS-2, will probe regions of star-birth and star-death, as well as observe exoplanets and track the evolution of galaxies.

Water vapor observed sublimating from tiny chunks of rock within planet-forming disks is a sign that a process called "pebble accretion" kickstarts the birth of new worlds.

How did supermassive black holes form? JWST and Chandra may have found the answer.

X-ray observations from the supernova remnant SN 1006 show its magnetic fields align to accelerate cosmic rays.

Large amounts of dust are being expelled from the Uranus system to settle in the ecliptic plane and contribute to the zodiacal light, a new study suggests.

After nearly 40 years of searching, astronomers have now spotted the infrared northern lights on Uranus.

Over 1.6 million star systems have been scanned by Europe's LOFAR system so far, but E.T. hasn't been caught phoning home yet.

A better understanding of exoplanet orbits is helping SETI astronomers reduce their computational costs and conduct their search for intelligent aliens faster.

Thanks to NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, geologists have discovered evidence for ancient rivers on the Red Planet hiding in plain sight, suggesting the planet once had the right conditions for life.

Improved lighting standards coming into force across the whole of Chile will protect astronomy observations, public health and wildlife.

The Breakthrough Listen initiative has moved its headquarters to the U.K. to take advantage of the reams of data set to come from the Square Kilometer Array.

Almost twice as big (but half as massive) as Jupiter, WASP-17b burns at a temperature of 1,500 degrees Celsius.

Superintelligences might reveal themselves through the technosignatures of their cosmic engineering projects.

We’ve got geophysics to thank for preventing our precious metals from sinking to Earth’s core.

Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.

AI is the way forward in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from detecting radio signals to finding technosignatures on planets.

The blast of light was 100 times brighter than an ordinary supernova, but it came from intergalactic space between two distant galaxies.