When spacecraft land on the moon, their engines unleash huge clouds of dust and debris that can damage expensive equipment and threaten future lunar bases. As space agencies plan to establish a lasting presence on the moon, understanding how these plumes form has become a critical priority.

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

Recent observations of Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field by NASA’s Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented variety of plasma waves that seem to defy our current understanding of planetary magnetospheres.

Using various telescopes worldwide, an international team of astronomers has observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) known as AT2018hyz, which allowed them to witness a rapid brightening of this source in the radio band.

Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental building blocks shaping the large-scale structure of today’s universe. These small galaxies are also the ancestors of our own Milky Way.