Astrobites

Satellite proliferation imperils astronomical observations, study finds

JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune's tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today's moons may be rubble from Neptune's original satellite system, destroyed w

The James Webb Space Telescope found tiny “little red dots” that looked like impossibly compact galaxies — but astronomers now suspect many may be “black hole stars,” young black holes wrapped in gas so dense that the material falling into them produces

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Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet after nearly four decades of increasingly sensitive searches — from deep underground detectors to space-based observations

New observations and mapping efforts are attempting to uncover the nature of dark matter, which constitutes roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe.

Uranus, Neptune May Be Magma Worlds, Not Ice Giants