Artist’s depiction of the SPRITE CubeSat orbiting Earth. Credit: LASP Scientists at CU Boulder are developing a satellite about the size of a toaster oven…
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Captured in astounding detail by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula is showcased in this new image in beautiful pink and red…
Artist’s illustration of a galaxy in the early universe that is very dusty and shows the first signs of a rotationally supported disk. In this…
The Ultra Hot Neptune. Credit: Ricardo Ramirez International team including University of Warwick astronomers discovers a new class of planet, the Ultra Hot Neptune The…
Figure 1. The difference between the pre-impact surface DEM and the post-impact surface DEM around the SCI impact point. The color scale indicates the height…
The Butterfly nebula, an example of a star forming region in the Tarantula nebula. The white scale bar is 2 light years or about 120,000…
Are we alone in the universe? It is one of the most profound questions posed in modern astronomy. But although our understanding of the cosmos…
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by…
This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows Bennu in one full rotation from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km). The…
NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a media teleconference at 12 p.m.…
‘Galactic archaeology’ refers to the study of second generation stars to learn about the physical characteristics of the first stars, which disappeared only tens of…
New research from Chalmers and ETH Zürich, Switzerland, suggests a promising way to detect elusive dark matter particles through previously unexplored atomic responses occurring in…
These schematic images show the geometry of the β Pictoris system: The image on the left shows both the star and the two planets embedded…
Composite image showing Jupiter’s moon Io in radio (ALMA), and optical light (Voyager 1 and Galileo). The ALMA images of Io show for the first…
This wide-field view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy shows, in visible light, the vast array of stars contained within this small space.…
Stars identified in the research have formed “shell structures” in the aftermath of a radial merger occurring 3-billion years ago. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Evidence…
A recent study from the University of Melbourne proposes a new theory for the origin of dark matter, helping experimentalists in Australia and abroad in…
Credit: NIST Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues…
Andrea Ghez. Credit: Christopher Dibble/UCLA Andrea Ghez (Caltech MS ’89, PhD ’92), the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA,…
Artist’s impression of black hole jets. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others…