As the universe evolves, matter concentrations are surrounded by gas halos getting hotter and bigger. Credit: D. Nelson / Illustris Collaboration The universe is getting…
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Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through…
The XMM-Newton X-ray telescope reveals a new type of star in X-ray light. Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton, L. Oskinova/University Potsdam, Germany This image shows a new type…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Folatelli First discovered in 1798 by German-English astronomer William Hershel, NGC 613 is a galaxy that lies in the southern…
Artist’s conception of a brown dwarf. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL Planetary scientists wondered if bands of winds or swirling storms dominated the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. University…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as…
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which has started its approach to the Red Planet, will help answer the next logical question in Mars exploration. With…
NASA Astronaut Matthew Dominick. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with…
Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers are searching for signs of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy…
An astro-statistics course University of California, Riverside, graduate student Remington O. Sexton took three years ago taught him techniques that led him to develop free,…
Image of the Cygnus space freighter departing the International Space Station moments after being released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Credit: NASA Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus…
NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers. Through small satellites and scientific balloons, these selections…
First released in 2009, this Chandra image shows PSR B1509-58 – a spinning neutron star surrounded by a cloud of energetic particles. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO;…
This striking view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of…
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins performs the Grasp experiment in the Columbus module of the International Space Station ahead of the New Year. The experiment studies…
Artist’s concept of Lucy Mission. Credit: SwRI NASA’s Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L’TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been…
These 366 images of the Sun were made by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite in 2020. Credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium These 366 images of the Sun…
To celebrate a new year, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has published a montage of six beautiful galaxy mergers. Each of these merging systems was…
As the world leaves behind the strange and challenging year of 2020, we look towards 2021 with a mixture of relief and expectation. And this…
NASA is targeting the final test in the Green Run series, the hot fire, for as early as January 17, 2021. The hot fire is…