Despite Mercury’s daytime Vulcan heat, there is permanent ice at the poles, according to data and images from a NASA probe that visited Mercury in…
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The Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen new research suggests. Credit: UNM Scientists Find Earth and Moon Not…
Three-color image of the sky around Lyman-alpha blob 6 (LAB-6). In green is the Lyman-alpha emission from LAB-6. LAB-6 is 18.5 billion light-years away from…
NGC 1589, a spiral galaxy, was once the scene of a violent bout of cosmic hunger pangs. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The subject of this…
This updated catalog of trans-Neptunian objects and the methods used to find them could aid in future searches for undiscovered planets in the far reaches…
This illustration shows a nightside view of the exoplanet WASP-76b. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a dayside where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high…
The rotation of the QCD axion (black ball) produces an excess of matter (colored balls) over antimatter, allowing galaxies and human beings to exist. (Graphic:…
A look into the interior of the Sun and a more evolved giant star. Credit: MPS / Aalto University / hormesdesign.de By combining modern data…
An artist’s impression of a satellite forming around a giant gas planet which is itself still forming around a star. Credit: Nagoya University Numerical simulations…
An artist’s impression of the star with its tidally locked red dwarf companion. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC) A star that pulses on just one…
Composite image of W51A, the largest star-forming region in our galaxy. Dozens of massive stars that are more than eight times the size of our…
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, seen here as viewed by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, lies over 60…
An artist’s conception of Piro and Vissapragada’s model of a ringed planet transiting in front of its host star. They used these models to constrain…
This image shows the X-ray outburst from the black hole MAXI J0637-043, detected by the REXIS instrument on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The image was constructed…
Overview of electron observations (top) and predictions made by PreMevE 2.0. All panels present for the same 1289?day interval starting from 2013/02/20. Credit: Los Alamos…
This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. Credit: European Southern Observatory At only…
Artist’s impression of two white dwarfs in the process of merging. Depending on the combined mass, the system may explode in a thermonuclear supernova, or…
In recognition of the Hubble Space Telescope’s scientific accomplishments and longevity, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has awarded their 2020 Collins…
The dynamic behaviour of a black hole corona (artist’s impression). Credit: ESA Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and…
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high…