The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...
A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.
"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...
The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...
Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...
From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...
All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final ...
We are going to get plenty of action in the night sky, and most of it centers around our solar system's red planet ... even catch a glimpse of Saturn's moon Titan, if you've got a telescope. If you ...
When Clyde Tombaugh built his first telescope at the age of 20 ... for the discovery of the most controversial body in the solar system, Tombaugh also found a comet, hundreds of asteroids ...
Around the world, scientists enthusiastically dug into new data from space probes to deepen our understanding of this world, the sun, and the rest of our solar system. Telescopes in space and on ...
The ever-faithful Hubble Space Telescope has been deployed on many missions over its ... Studying these differences can help scientists understand more about planets beyond our solar system, as well ...