The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
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10 Times This Year the Webb Telescope Blew Astronomers Away With Stunning New Images of Our Universe
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina…
A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that studying an atomic clock on a spacecraft orbiting close to the Sun, inside the orbit…
Artist’s impression of GRB 211211A. The kilonova and gamma-ray burst is on the right. The blue color represents material squeezed along the poles, while the red…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober…
Illustration of the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm), which will significantly improve the utility of robotic arms for lunar landers. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech COLDArm,…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy ESO 415-19, , which lies around 450 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy…
An artist’s concept of a comet or asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Comet strikes on JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the…
One of the new high-resolution simulations of the dark matter enveloping the Milky Way and its neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The new study shows that…
Astronomers from Rice University and other organizations dug deep into the data from this near-infrared image, one of the first taken by NASA’s James Webb…
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of…
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s InSight lander with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. InSight’s package of weather sensors, called the Auxiliary Payload Subsystem…
This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it’s possible to see hot spots where…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Martian Surface for Possible Return to Earth
NASA’s Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on December 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the…
Astrophysicists have devised a new way to verify the existence of the supermassive black hole Leo I*. A behemoth black holeA black hole is a…
How it works: Using trial and error, machine learning tests many different pairings of simulated galaxies and black holes created using different rules, and then…
The location where NASA’s Perseverance will begin depositing its first cache of samples is shown in this image taken by the Mars rover on December…
This view compares a lucky imaging view of Jupiter from VISIR (left) at infrared wavelengths with a very sharp amateur image in visible light from…
An artist’s concept of the Kepler-1658 system. Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by Kepler. Credit:…
A new international research hub will coordinate global expertise to prepare humanity for extraterrestrial life. A new research hub examines how to respond to life beyond…