Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that planet formation in the early stages of our Solar System began earlier than previously believed. The team found…
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Apollo 7, Lunar Module Pilot, R. Walter Cunningham working inside the Command Module. Credit: NASA Walter Cunningham was an American astronaut who served as the…
The biggest earthquake ever recorded on Mars has uncovered layers in its crust that could signify a previous collision with a large object, such as…
What are some skywatching highlights in January 2023? Some lovely groupings this month include the Moon with MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our…
The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly-around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking…
This image of the Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132) was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). Credit: Science: NASA, CSA, ESA,…
OzGrav, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at Swinburne, has received an additional $35 million in funding to continue their…
This artist’s impression shows a magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada According to a new study the X-ray light emitted by…
A swath of sky measuring 2% of the area covered by the full moon was imaged with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) in eight filters, and…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6355, globular cluster that lies less than 50,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen…
An illustration of the variations among the more than 5,000 known exoplanets discovered since the 1990s. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A new model explains the rarity of…
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods…
NASA visualization of the Milky Way’s Fermi bubbles. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Evidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles.” A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan…
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system, with the black hole appearing in the center and its companion star on the left. New measurements…
Dark matter is a fundamental component of the standard cosmological model, but its mysteries remain unsolved. One of the biggest puzzles is the lack of…
[embedded content] The International Space Station continues its scientific journey orbiting over 200 miles above the Earth’s surface. Spacecraft carried crew from around the world…
Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years. If an alien were to look at Earth,…
Galaxy cluster Abell 370, located about 4 billion light-years away, contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of…
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space observatory to see further into the Universe than ever before. In July 2022 it became fully operational…
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite deployed its solar arrays while in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CNES Cameras on the Surface Water and Ocean…