A Menagerie of Galaxies: Hubble Captures a Cluster With Galaxies of All Shapes and Sizes
This packed ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week showcases the galaxy cluster ACO S 295, as well as a jostling crowd of background galaxies and foreground…
This packed ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week showcases the galaxy cluster ACO S 295, as well as a jostling crowd of background galaxies and foreground…
How hospitable are red dwarf stars, the most common and long-lasting stars in our Galaxy? Researchers used Chandra and Hubble data to look at the…
Much of Mars’ ancient water was buried in the planet’s crust, not lost to space. Several oceans’ worth of ancient water may reside in minerals…
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever…
One of the key goals of gravitational wave astronomy is to understand and characterize binary black hole spins, according to Vijay Varma, a Klarman Postdoctoral…
NASA has a long history of supporting America’s entrepreneurs as they develop technologies from ideas to commercial readiness. The agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)…
A survey of star formation activity in the Orion Nebula Cluster found similar mass distributions for newborn stars and dense gas cores, which may evolve…
China launched Tianhe-1, the first and main module of a permanent orbiting space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace 天 宫), on April 29. Two additional…
NASA’s Webb to Study Young Exoplanets on the Edge Webb will probe the outer realm of exoplanetary systems, investigating known planets and hunting for new…
In the Universe, galaxies are distributed along extremely tenuous filaments of gas millions of light years long separated by voids, forming the cosmic web. The…
Remember the days before working from home? It’s Monday morning, you’re running late to beat the traffic, and you can’t find your car keys. What…
Spacewalking is a major highlight of any astronaut’s career. But there is a downside: putting on your spacesuit means sharing some previously worn underlayers. A…
Never-before-seen scenario ‘stretches what’s physically possible.’ A curiously yellow star has caused astrophysicists to reevaluate what’s possible within our universe. Led by Northwestern University, the…
For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with new visitors from Earth. First, it was the UAE Space Agency’s Hope…
A new video of the helicopter’s third flight gives viewers the sensation of standing on the Red Planet and seeing the action firsthand. When NASA’s…
Astronomers commonly refer to massive stars as the chemical factories of the Universe. They generally end their lives in spectacular supernovae, events that forge many…
As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1…
NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy…