Left and center: Image of the region of the sky containing BOSS-EUVLG1, which stands out due to its blue color. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.…
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. Acknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC…
Artist’s impression of CHEOPS. Credit: © ESA / ATG medialab Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific…
Clouds of interstellar dust and gas, here in the region “Cygnus-X” in the Swan constellation. Credit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & Frédérique Motte, Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/Irfu…
Insight-HXMT discovers QPO generated in the closest jet to the black hole. Credit: IHEP Insight-HXMT, China’s first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency…
WPI mathematical physicist Mayer Humi has been studying the solar system for decades. Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute/Matthew Burgos Using a limited set of mathematical equations,…
The temporal evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present, is described by Einstein’s field equations of general relativity. However, there are…
Considering what we know about the key ingredients for life’s formation on Earth, here are three explanations for how this process may have occurred on…
Snapshots of the M87* black hole appearance, obtained through imaging / geometric modeling, and the EHT array of telescopes in 2009-2017. The diameter of all…
Banner image: Artist’s depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft. Credit: Lockheed Martin CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture…
The Chang’e-4 lunar probe, photographed from the Yutu-2 rover. The measuring device from Kiel is located on the left behind the antenna. Credit: CNSA/CLEP In…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/LPG/CNRS/University of Nantes/Space Science Institute A global infrared mosaic of Saturn’s moon Enceladus created using a complete dataset from the Cassini spacecraft…
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered an Earth-sized planet that zips around its star every 3.14 days. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, Christine Daniloff, MIT…
The debris objects shown in the images are an artist’s impression based on actual density data. However, the debris objects are shown at an exaggerated…
Deserts like the Sahara harbor fresh water aquifers that can be affected by Earth’s changing climate. The OASIS study project seeks to a establish a…
In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover uses the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL). Located on the turret at the end of the rover’s…
Coronal magnetic field lines obtained from the PFSS model. Credit: Z.-H. Yang et al., Science (2020) The Sun is a magnetized star. Its magnetic field…
Although the two galaxies in NGC 3256 appear merged when viewed in visible light, a second, bright nucleus is found hiding among the tangle of…
An IRAC infrared image of a filament of young star-forming cores, with the intensity of the dense gas emission overlaid in contours. New submillimeter observations…
These images showing nanojets on the Sun were captured by NASA’s IRIS mission on Apr. 3, 2014. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s IRIS…