This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable…
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Artistic mural of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA We don’t yet know what the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST…
The team solved this mystery with the help of a vacuum chamber, a lot of lasers, and one powerful cosmic reaction. Every so often, the…
Artist’s conception of the aerial biosphere in the cloud layers of Venus’ atmosphere. In this picture, hypothetical microbial life in the clouds of Venus resides…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the open star cluster NGC 1755. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Milone, G. Gilmore The open star cluster NGC 1755…
This artist’s rendering shows a view of our own Milky Way Galaxy and its central bar as it might appear if viewed from above. Credit:…
This artist’s rendering shows a view of our own Milky Way Galaxy and its central bar as it might appear if viewed from above. An…
Artistic representation of a neutron star accreting matter from its companion’s envelope. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) An international research team has performed a…
Artist impression of an exoplanet system. Credit: ESA ESA and Airbus have signed a contract to move forward with the design and construction of the…
When was the last time an asteroid hit Earth? Today! But it was almost definitely very small. Small asteroids and other tiny dust and particles…
James Webb Space telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Before the MIRI instrument – one of four scientific instruments aboard the…
Credit: Caltech New planetary candidates found by sifting through archival Kepler Telescope data. A fully automated exoplanetAn exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that…
The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will…
A pair of stars at the start of a common envelope phase. In this artist’s impression, we get a view from very close to a…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
An image of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter. This particular image was taken…
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) is seen next to globular star cluster M3 in this image taken by Adam Block at UArizona’s Mount Lemmon Sky Center.…
An artist’s impression of the mysterious burst AT2018cow. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “The Cow,” may…
Searching for exoplanetary systems. Credit: ESA–C. Carreau ESA’s trifecta of dedicated exoplanetAn exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is outside the Solar System,…
Artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), folded in the Ariane 5 rocket during launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: ESA…