This week’s Picture of the Week highlights another of the 20 images to come out of ALMA’s first…
Browsing: Space
Space refers to the vast, seemingly infinite expanse beyond Earth’s atmosphere where planets, stars, galaxies, and cosmic phenomena exist. It is a realm defined by extreme conditions—near vacuum, intense radiation, and temperatures ranging from blistering heat to freezing cold. Space exploration has revealed a universe rich with complexity, from black holes and exoplanets to the cosmic microwave background that offers clues to the Big Bang. For scientists, space is both a frontier and a laboratory, offering insights into fundamental physics, the origins of the universe, and the potential for life beyond Earth. It continues to inspire curiosity, innovation, and a deeper sense of our place in the cosmos.
In this image many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and…
The geologic history of a planet is written in its layers. Erosion of the surface…
One of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s many scientific objectives is to study the planets…
The results are rolling in from Caltech’s newest state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, which began operations at…
Dust particles form as dying red giant stars throw off material and become part of…
An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of…
New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years…
New research undertaken at Northumbria University shows that the Sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than…
NASA’s Kepler space telescope may be retired, but the discoveries continue to rack up for…
This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by…
Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result…
Explore the plethora of planets outside our solar system with new multimedia experiences from NASA’s Exoplanet…
Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori.…
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it…
This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy…
A giant, spiraling storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is captured in this animation from NASA’s…
Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the…