Who Gets Mystified? Hubble Captures the Grandeur of a Cosmic Beauty
A bright foreground star isn’t enough to distract from the grandeur of the galaxy UGC 3885, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. While…
A bright foreground star isn’t enough to distract from the grandeur of the galaxy UGC 3885, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. While…
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore an expansive range of infrared astrophysics topics. One eagerly anticipated survey…
American astronauts in 2024 will take their first steps near the Moon’s South Pole: the land of extreme light, extreme darkness, and frozen water that…
One of the first things people want to know before taking a trip is what the weather will be like wherever they are headed. For…
A meteorite that fell in northern Germany in 2019 contains carbonates which are among the oldest in the solar system; it also evidences the earliest…
Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3…
The Dark Energy Survey has released a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of work. Containing data on nearly…
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Despite searching with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have…
NASA conducted the first hot fire on January 28, 2021, in a new series of tests for the production of RS-25 engines that will help…
The high schoolers turned scientists published their findings this week, thanks to a research mentorship program at the Center for Astrophysics; Harvard and Smithsonian. They…
Precise measurements reveal that the exoplanets of the system discovered by ULiège researchers have remarkably similar densities, which provides new clues about their compositions. A…
Galaxies begin to “die” when they stop forming stars, but until now astronomers had never clearly glimpsed the start of this process in a far-away…
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed a unique planetary system consisting of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as…
Looking Around the Neighborhood Though they focus on the star at the center of our solar system, some Sun-watching spacecraft recently captured unique views of…
The CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured its 20,000th image of Mars! The image, taken on December 13, 2020, features Solis…
Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of…
The year 1986 was shaping up to be the most ambitious one yet for NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. The agency’s plans called for up to…