Space Station Crew Gets Ready for Spacewalk and Dragon Departure
The Expedition 66 crew is getting ready for a spacewalk on Wednesday while packing a U.S. resupply ship for its departure on Friday. Meanwhile, the…
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Unusual Team Finds Gigantic Planet Hidden in Plain Sight – Much Closer to Earth Than Others Like It
A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. The…
Danger Close: Newly-Discovered Planets Will Be “Swallowed” by Their Stars
Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars…
Massive Filament Structure – 3900 Light-Years Long – Discovered in the Milky Way
A Gigantic Lane Made of Raw Material for New Stars Astronomers discover a huge filament of atomic hydrogen, a possible precursor to star-forming clouds. A…
Strange Deformed Planet With Mysterious Motion Detected by Exoplanet Mission Cheops
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day has a deformed shape more like that of a…
Radio Pulsar Binary Proves Einstein at Least 99.99% Right
More than a hundred years have passed since Einstein formalized his theory of General Relativity (GR), the geometric theory of gravitation that revolutionized our understanding…
Look Up and Watch a 1.1-km Asteroid Fly Past Earth Today – Here’s How
This week’s apparition of asteroid 1994 PC1 offers observers a chance to see a space rock moving in real time. In a slow moving universe,…
NASA Asteroid Watch: Keeping an Eye on Near-Earth Objects
Managed for NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) accurately characterizes the orbits of all known near-Earth objects,…
Steady Driving Towards Launch of ExoMars Rover
The first simulation of the ExoMars rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of preparations as the mission now marches with…
Scores of Baby Stars Revealed in the Orion Constellation
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space…
Science With the Webb Space Telescope – What Questions Will It Answer?
Webb’s science goals cover a very broad range of themes, and will tackle many open questions in astronomy. They can be divided into four main…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Illuminates Exoplanets
The infrared observatory may help answer questions about planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, including how they form and what drives weather in their…
Newly Discovered Carbon on Mars: Origin May Be Biologically Produced Methane
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, and since then has roamed Gale Crater taking samples and sending the results back home…
“Mini” Monster Black Hole Discovery Could Reveal Secrets to Giant’s Growth
The discovery of a supermassive black hole in a relatively small galaxy could help astronomers unravel the mystery surrounding how the very biggest black holes…
Ironing Out the Interiors of Super-Earth Exoplanets
The discovery of more than 4,500 extra-solar planets has created a need for modeling their interior structure and dynamics. As it turns out, iron plays…
Come Sail Away With Me
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 3318 are lazily draped across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies in…
Black Hole at Center of Milky Way Is Unpredictable and Chaotic – Mysterious Flares Erupt Every Day
An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*,…
Explosion of Supergiant Star Captured by Astronomers
Using a University of Hawaiʻi telescope on Haleakala and another on Maunakea, astronomers, for the very first time, imaged the dramatic end to a red…