Artist’s concept of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and Northrop Grumman The NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
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The Bernese theoretical astrophysicist Kevin Heng has achieved a rare feat: On paper, he has derived novel solutions to an old mathematical problem needed to…
An artist’s conception of the newly discovered asteroid 2021 PH27, which has the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any…
Galaxies pump out contaminated exhausts. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne Astronomical Productions Research Reveals How Star-Making Pollutes the Cosmos Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in,…
The illustration shows an aluminum-26 nucleus (green) escaping a supernova explosion. It will subsequently decay via gamma-ray emission that can be observed by satellites. Credit:…
Herbig–Haro object named HH111, captured by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini This striking image features a relatively…
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Hubble orbits about 547 kilometers (340 miles) above Earth.…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab After successful completion of its final tests, NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
This artist’s illustration represents the five brown dwarfs discovered with the satellite TESS. These objects are all in close orbits of 5-27 days (at least…
Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of an NSBH binary merger, showing the disruption of the Neutron Star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin),…
Astronomers have identified a new class of habitable planets, dubbed ‘Hycean’ planets – hot, ocean-covered planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres – which could represent a big…
New research from University of Colorado at Boulder, could help scientists better understand the phenomena behind ‘sunspots’. The sun has long intrigued scientists. However, this…
This artist’s impression shows the Nu2 Lupi planetary system, which was recently explored by ESA’s exoplanet observer CHEOPS. Credit: © ESA The exoplanetAn exoplanet (or…
Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious…
Radio image of Andromeda galaxy at 6.6 GHz (inset), captured using the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Italy. Credit: S. Fatigoni et al (2021) Disk of…
This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser In 2019, astronomers spotted something…
Open cluster NGC 2164 in the Large Magellanic Cloud as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Kalirai, A. Milone This…
This illustration shows SS 433, a black hole or neutron star, as it pulls material away from its companion star. The stellar material forms a…
New solar cycle clock resolves timings of solar activity, revealing the long and the short of the Sun’s seasons. Research led by University of WarwickFounded…
Photograph from International Space Station orbiting 263 miles above the southeast coast of Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean into an orbital sunriseCredit: NASA Night Turns…