ALMA Provides Unprecedented Views of the Birth of Planets
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is still…
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Juno Mission Hits Halfway Point in Data Collection
Hubble Reveals Evidence of Active Nucleus Driving Hot Bubbles of Gas
Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space, Over 18 Billion Kilometers from Earth
Stunning Juno Image of Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid Bennu
Stunning Hubble Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 100
NELIOTA Project Views Flashes of Light Across the Surface of the Moon
SPECULOOS Project Makes Its First Observations
Fast-Growing White Dwarf Surprises Astronomers
Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A…
Astronomers Discover Helium Exoplanet in the Cygnus Constellation
Astronomers have discovered a distant planet with an abundance of helium in its atmosphere, which has swollen to resemble an inflated balloon. An international team…
Astronomers Find Unknown Treasure Trove of Planets Hiding in Dust
The first unbiased survey of protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars in the Taurus star-forming region turned up a higher-than-expected number of disks with features suggesting…
LIGO Makes Vital Contribution to New Gravitational Wave Discoveries
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend. The new…
Astronomers Reveal How Stellar Binaries Form
Most stars with the mass of the sun or larger have one or more companion stars, but when and how these multiple stars form is…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu
After traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion kilometers, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived…
Juno Spacecraft Views ‘Dolphin’ in the Jovian Clouds
This series of images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures changing cloud formations across Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. A cloud in the shape of a dolphin appears…
Hubble Image of the Week – Clusters Within Clusters
This image, from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), reveals thousands of globular clusters lying at the core of a galaxy…
GRAVITY Measures Environs of a Massive Black Hole Outside the Milky Way
Discovery is the first detailed observation of the environs of a massive black hole outside the Milky Way, say researchers from the GRAVITY group. In…