A specimen whose head appears to have turned in the direction of the camera. Based on the scale provided in the photo from which this…
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Artist’s concept of meteors impacting ancient Earth. Some scientists think such impacts may have delivered water and other molecules useful to emerging life on Earth.…
The Alpha Centauri group is the closest star – or solar – system outside of our own at a distance of 4.3 lightyears, and it…
LISA Pathfinder, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), is designed to test technologies that could one day detect gravitational waves. Gravitational waves, predicted by…
The colorful globe of Titan passes in front of Saturn and its rings in this true-color snapshot from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2011. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space…
Solving the discordant data on the expansion rate of the universe is like trying to thread a ‘cosmic needle’, where its hole is the H0…
For this Picture of the Week, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye towards an emission line galaxy called NGC 3749. When astronomers…
An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an…
An artist’s impression of the Milky Way’s big black hole flinging the star from the galaxy’s center. Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) An international…
The Kuiper Belt is a region of leftover material from the Solar System’s early history and resembles a thick disk beyond the orbit of Neptune.…
An artist’s conception of a spinning black hole with accretion flow and a jet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The black holes of Einstein’s theory of relativity can…
Sky survey provides clues to how galaxies change over time. The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A…
Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence Squeeze leads to stellar-mass black…
A multi-layered view of solar spicules: (from top to bottom) observations of the corona from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), followed by images from NJIT’s…
DESI’s 5,000 spectroscopic “eyes” can cover an area of sky about 38 times larger than that of the full moon, as seen in this overlay…
Vivid orange streamers of super-hot, electrically charged gas (plasma) arc from the surface of the Sun reveal the structure of the solar magnetic field rising…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Seth et al. The Universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a sense of scale.…
The pair of strange, luminescent creatures at play in this image are actually galaxies — realms of millions upon millions of stars. This galactic duo…
An artist’s conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting within the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Credit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D.…
The nearest exoplanet Proxima Centauri b is situated in a multiple star system. This is what the system might look like when seen from the…