As young planets grow within these discs they carve out gaps, leading to a structure of concentric rings. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers using one of…
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Comet C/2019 Q4 as imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii’s Big Island on Sept. 10, 2019. Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope A newly discovered comet has…
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30 million light-years away within the…
Many scientists believe there is a ninth planet in our solar system. Could they be right? In the farthest reaches of our solar system, way…
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
After the launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 by the Soviet Union, the United States would be in a race to catch up to…
Gemini Observatory two-color composite image of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) which is the first interstellar comet ever identified. This image was obtained using the Gemini North…
A pair of astrophysicists from Cambridge University and Columbia University believe the answer to the problem of getting stuff to the Moon cheaply, might be…
The BBC has recently reported on a new interstellar visitor to our solar system. It is thought to be a comet and was discovered by…
Radio image of the center of the Milky Way with a portion of the MeerKAT telescope array in the foreground. The plane of the galaxy…
This artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known…
The world’s largest single radio dish telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in China, is now fully operational and has picked up a…
The image depicts a schematic of terahertz (THz) heterodyne detection with graphene. In this, two THz waves (red) are coupled into graphene, where they are…
An artistic rendition of two neutron stars merging. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State/A. Simonnet Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions, as researchers…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a globular cluster — a…
Water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet located in the habitable zone of its star. This finding may help to increase…
A new study has revealed that all of the comets in our solar system might share the same origin. Astronomer Christian Eistrup applied chemical models…
This artist’s concept of a lake at the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike features such as those seen by…
When humans get to space, they will need somewhere to live. For such a place to be viable Earth-made cement would be ideal. But could…
Scientists are getting better at detecting a signal that has been traveling across the universe for 12 billion years. This could provide great insight into…