A map of the sky is now crowded with over 5,000 exoplanet candidates from NASA’s TESS mission. The TESS Science Office at MIT released the…
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A slice through the 3D map of galaxies from the first few months of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). The Earth is at the…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, ESOAcknowledgement: J. Schmidt The subject of this image is a group…
Credit: NSF Argonne physicists say cold, dry is perfect for examining the oldest light in the universe. When your workplace is the South Pole, things…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center An international research team will survey the stars, star clusters, and dust that lie within 19 nearby galaxies. To…
Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way: Filament of Hydrogen 3,900 Light-Years Long
Artist’s conception of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a massive explosion that…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray…
Meteorites on their way to Earth and breaking through the atmosphere. Credit: Elements of this image furnished by NASA- earthmap for 3Drender; courtesy University of…
SOFIA FORCAST measurements (orange) of the V838 Mon spectrum, and the best-fit composite model of SOFIA data with a silicate-to-alumina ratio of 50:50 (yellow), overlaid…
Dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 sparkles with young stars in this Hubble visible-light image. The bright region at the center, surrounded by pink clouds and…
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall…
A gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star, which is similar to TOI-2180 b. Credit: NASA A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
This image shows a section of the side view of the Milky Way as measured by ESA’s Gaia satellite. The dark band consists of gas…
Artist impression of planet WASP-103b and its host star. Credit: ESA ESA’s exoplanet An exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is outside the…
This week’s apparition of asteroid 1994 PC1 offers observers a chance to see a space rock moving in real time. In a slow moving universe,…
Webb Space Telescope adjusting orientation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Webb’s science goals cover a very broad range of themes, and will tackle many…
Planet XO-3b has an internal source of heat, possibly from tidal heating, which is caused by the squeezing of the planet’s interior by the gravity…
Chandra has detected X-rays from the dwarf galaxy Mrk 462, which reveals the presence of a growing supermassive black hole. This black hole contains about…
An artist’s conception of the cross section of a super-Earth with the NIF target chamber superimposed over the mantle, looking into the core. Credit: Image…