Image of the dwarf planet Ceres based on observations by NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft. This month dwarf planet Ceres is at its brightest, which means you…
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Many chemical elements are formed during a supernova explosion, so studying them can give scientists insight into the universe’s chemical make-up. New research sheds light…
An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The sudden slowdown of a star in 2020 provides an opportunity to…
The search for extraterrestrial life has been a topic of scientific inquiry and public fascination for decades. Scientists use various methods, such as studying other…
Artist impression of the four classes of planetary system architecture. A new architecture framework allows researchers to study an entire planetary system at the systems…
Hubble Space Telescope image of a jellyfish galaxy. (Image zoomed in to show detail. See the wider view below.) Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik…
Artist’s concept of a growing black hole seen at the center of a faraway galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive…
The NEOMIR orbiting observatory will act as an early warning system to detect and monitor any asteroid coming towards Earth from the Sun’s direction. NEOMIR…
Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie…
Researchers discovered the first ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to be found around a spiral galaxy with the mass of the Milky Way that’s outside of the…
Figure 1. Two exceptionally bright galaxies were captured in GLASS-JWST program. These galaxies existed approximately 450 and 350 million years after the Big Bang (with…
James Webb Space Telescope artist’s conception. Credit: NASA-GSFC, Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several…
The radio telescope array ALMA has pin-pointed the exact cosmic age of a distant JWST-identified galaxy, GHZ2/GLASS-z12, at 367 million years after the Big Bang.…
Recent astronomical observations have revealed the existence of six huge galaxies in the early universe, which challenges the previous understanding of galaxy formation. Joel Leja,…
The rocket carrying the experiment module being launched to carry out microgravity experiments. Credit: Swedish Space Corporation Gaining insight into the formation of dust grains…
Hubble Space Telescope features a massive galaxy cluster named SPT-CL J0019-2026 in the constellation Cetus that is warped by gravitational lensing. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA,…
Black hole and accretion disk. Credit: T. Müller (MPIA) The exciting finding promises numerous similar discoveries. Using data from ESA’s Gaia astrometry mission, astronomers have…
The formation of the solar system remains one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy and planetary science. Scientists believe that the solar system formed around…
Artist’s rendition of oxygen, sodium, and potassium aurorae as Io enters Jupiter’s shadow. Credit: Chris Faust Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in…