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It can stretch your mind to ponder what’s really out there. Right above you is the sky – or as scientists would call it, the…
A mid-level solar flare that peaked at 8:13 p.m. EDT on October 1, 2015, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO NASAEstablished in 1958,…
An artist’s impression of the white dwarf star WD1054–226 orbited by clouds of planetary debris and a major planet in the habitable zone. Credit: Mark…
Illustration of the faint fuel reservoirs that surround galaxies, allowing them to form new stars and planetary systems. Credit: Shireen Dooling/ASU Most galaxies, including our…
This artist’s impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star…
Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk. When the planetary material hits the white dwarf surface, a…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
Warps Drive Disruptions in Planet Formation Through Gravitational Instability in Young Solar Systems
The impact of a warp as it wipes out the spiral structure of a protoplanetary disc. Credit: University of Warwick A new study from the…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed…
Artist’s depiction of the star EK Draconis ejecting a coronal mass ejection as two planets orbit. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan In the search…
This artist’s conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This artist’s conception illustrates…
An artist’s rendition of a red supergiant star transitioning into a Type II supernova, emitting a violent eruption of radiation and gas on its dying…
Laniakea Supercluster superimposed on orbits and surfaces of mass density. Credit: University of Hawaiʻi Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see…
Microlensing strikes again. Astronomers have been using the technique to detect everything from rogue planets to the most distant star ever seen. Now, astronomers have…
Hubble Space Telescope of Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair that is composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559…
[embedded content] What’s Up for February? JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. It is a…
Webb Space Telescope Provides New Tools To Search for the Building Blocks of Life on Distant Planets
This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator How NASA in Silicon Valley Will…
Giant Magellan Telescope. Credit: GMTO Corporation The U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program, which includes the Giant Magellan Telescope, was ranked mission critical by the 2020…