Galactic Crash With Sagittarius May Have Triggered the Formation of Our Solar System
The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our…
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Astronomers Look Back 11 Billion Years and See Unusual “Cosmic Ring of Fire”
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Prepares for Restart After Unexpected Shutdown
NASA Astronauts Rehearse for SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Day
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Cleared to Proceed Toward May 27 Launch
Student Clears Up “Massive” Black Hole Confusion
Trials by Fire, Ice, Light and Sound: NASA’s New Mars Rover Perseveres
NASA and SpaceX are ‘GO’ to Proceed for Launch of First Astronauts to Space Station from U.S. Since 2011
Quasi-Periodic Flickers in Millimeter-Waves Detected From Heart of Milky Way
A Sparkling Stretched Spiral and Stunning Out-of-This-World Galaxies Imaged by Hubble
This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Known as NGC 4100, the…
Supercomputer Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae Reveal Complicated Physics of Exploding Massive Stars
In a study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers Dr. Jade Powell and Dr. Bernhard Mueller from the ARC…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Investigate the Dawn of Our Solar System
Researchers will observe far-flung asteroids, some with moons, to learn more about the makeup and history of our solar system Millions of asteroids roam our…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Fully Stowed in Launch Configuration
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket…
New Clues Discovered About the Cosmic Missing Link: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
A team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave discovery (OzGrav) recently published a study revealing something unexpected about black holes:…
New Gravitational-Wave Model Helps Reveal the True Nature of Neutron Stars
Gravitational-wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that promises to yield fresh insights into the structure and composition of neutron…
Next-Generation NASA Space Telescope Named for ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building the Coronagraph Instrument for the spacecraft and contributing to the mission’s science goals. NASA is…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Officially Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu’s surface. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security…
Massive Rotating Disk in Early Universe Discovered by Largest Radio Telescope in the World
In our 13.8 billion-year-old universe, most galaxies like our Milky Way form gradually, reaching their large mass relatively late. But a new discovery made with…