A falling boulder has left a clear trace on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU A research team from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute…
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Artist’s concept of a Peter Pan disk. Credit: Jonathan Holden/NASA New research from scientists at Queen Mary University of London has revealed how long-lived Peter…
Examples of disaggregation (top) and linear fractures (bottom) in boulders on asteroid Bennu from images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft. In the bottom row, fracture…
Technicians inspect a critical part of the James Webb Space Telescope known as the Deployable Tower Assembly after fully extending it in the same maneuver…
Speed as important as size in predicting potentially damaging impacts of coronal mass ejections. Space weather forecasters need to predict the speed of solar eruptions,…
A black hole including the heartbeat signal observed in 2007 and 2018. Credit: Dr Chichuan Jin, of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences…
DESI was mounted on the 4-meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Kitt Peak National Observatory (KNPO) is located 56 miles southwest of Tucson,…
Figure 1. At the center of a quasar, a black hole is surrounded by a spinning accretion disk composed of dust and gas, and there…
A visualization of three computer simulations of terrestrial exoplanets, showing winds (arrows) and airborne dust (color scale), with an M-dwarf host star in the background.…
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign conducted at the…
ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge at ESTEC. Credit: ESA ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs have selected a team from Mahidol University,…
When a pair of young protostars called IRAS 4A was observed at millimeter wavelengths, left, the “hot corino” of complex organic molecules surrounding one of…
Researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and elsewhere, with the help of citizen scientists, have identified a brown dwarf with a disk that is…
Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral galaxy, known as NGC 2608. Credit:ESA/Hubble &…
The values of the energy density of matter (Ω_m) and dark energy (Ω_Λ) in the Universe measured from different cosmological data. Credit: Seshadri Nadathur A…
The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair. Among the more than 4,000…
The AMS detector on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Cosmic-ray data collected by the AMS detector on the International Space Station again challenge conventional…
The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The sparkling centerpiece of this…
Artist’s impression of an ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A new ultra-bright source of X-rays has awakened in between our galactic neighbors the…
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Watches Comet ATLAS As Solar Orbiter Crosses Its Tail
Credit: Comet ATLAS swoops by the Sun. Credit: NASA/NRL/STEREO/Karl Battams NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO-A spacecraft, captured these images of comet ATLAS as…