Brown dwarfs traversing space together, but separated by billions of miles, puzzle scientists. Citizen scientists have uncovered a bizarre pairing of two brown dwarfs, objects…
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for shielding electronics in military and space exploration technology from ionizing radiation. The new…
The spiral galaxy NGC 2008 sits center stage, its ghostly spiral arms spreading out towards us, in this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
Last night, ESA’s Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped our planet’s gravity, in contrast to their normal objects of…
NASA Prepares for Moon and Mars With New Addition to Its Deep Space Network Surrounded by California desert, NASA officials broke ground Tuesday, February 11,…
A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown…
Highlights from the preparation and liftoff of ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter. Solar Orbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from…
Radiation from dying stars is luminous enough to easily spin up orbiting asteroids to break-up speed New study led by University of Warwick astronomer computes…
Since the breakthrough in gravitational wave astronomy back in 2015, scientists have been able to detect more than a dozen pairs of closely located black…
Roughly 380,000 years after the big bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, matter (mostly hydrogen) cooled enough for neutral atoms to form, and light was…
A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface. Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere…
[Watch Solar Orbiter Launch Video.] Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03…
ESA’s new Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:03…
Update: If you missed the live coverage, watch the Solar Orbiter Liftoff Video. Note: ESA is also offering live coverage of the Solar Orbiter launch….
A “beating heart” of frozen nitrogen controls Pluto’s winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study. Pluto’s famous…
Echoes in gravitational wave signals suggest that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think. Research from the…
After setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, along with Soyuz…
SuperCam is a rock-vaporizing instrument that will help scientists hunt for Mars fossils. NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the…