X-Ray Emission From Mysterious Dark Matter
About eighty-five percent of the matter in the cosmos emits neither light nor any other known kind of radiation as far as is known, and…
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Light From Inside Galaxy Clusters May Be Linked With Mysterious Form of Matter
Dark Energy Survey Finds New Evidence for Emerging Way to Measure Dark Matter Scientists may have found another way to measure the distribution of dark…
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captured Perseverance During Descent to Red Planet
The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind, in this image taken on February…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Reports In From Mars
The technology demonstration has phoned home from where it is attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Astronomers Make a Weird Discovery: A Concentration of Smaller Black Holes Lurking Where They Expected a Single Massive Black Hole
Astronomers found something they weren’t expecting at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of…
SMUGGLE: Modeling Galaxy Formation With a New Stellar Feedback Framework
Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies is difficult because so many different physical processes besides just gravity are involved, including processes associated with star…
Unprecedented Map of the Sun’s Magnetic Field Created by CLASP2 Space Experiment
Every day space telescopes provide spectacular images of the solar activity. However, their instruments are blind to its main driver: the magnetic field in the…
Giant 2D Atlas of the Universe Created – Helps Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…
A New Way of Forming Planets – A Decades Old Puzzle Solved?
In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of our solar system. From relatively small rock and water worlds…
Meet NASA Astronaut & Artemis Team Member Nicole Mann [Video]
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with focusing on the development and training efforts…
Incredible Sneak Peek of Mars Landing Sent Back by NASA’s Perseverance Rover
The six-wheeled robot’s latest data since touching down yesterday include a series of images captured as the rover’s “jet pack” lowered it to the ground….
Mysterious Origins of “Super-Earths” Uncovered by Astronomers
Study shows super-Earths are not leftovers of mini-Neptunes, challenging our understanding of planetary formation. Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our…
Newly Discovered Planetary System Offers Glimpse Into How Planets Evolve
A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets, according to research co-led by Dartmouth….
Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet – See the First Image Sent Back
NASA’s latest and most complex mission to the Red Planet has touched down at Jezero Crater. Now it’s time to begin testing the health of…
Camera Designed to Reveal the Deepest Secrets of Our Universe Captures the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy in Glorious Detail
The Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel The Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was originally designed for the Dark Energy Survey, has captured one of the…
First Black Hole Ever Detected – Cygnus X-1 – Is Much More Massive Than We Thought
New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects. Published today…
The Awe-Inspiring Mars Relay Network That Will Keep NASA’s Perseverance in Touch With Earth During Landing and Beyond
A tightly choreographed dance between NASA’s Deep Space Network and Mars orbiters will keep the agency’s Perseverance in touch with Earth during landing and beyond….
Searching for Martian Life in Samples Collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover
When the agency’s newest rover mission searches for fossilized microscopic life on the Red Planet, how will scientists know whether they’ve found it? NASA’s Mars…