Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts observe the Earth in all her beauty. A member…
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.
New work from Carnegie’s Jonathan Gagné and the American Museum of Natural History’s Jacqueline Faherty…
The Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, has…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures the striking atmospheric features of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere in this series…
It was August 14, 2017, just one week before the Moon would cross paths with…
With an equator diameter of around 143,000 kilometers (89,000 miles), Jupiter is the largest planet…
Understanding the origin and time evolution of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is an issue of scientific…
Following on from last week’s Picture of the Week, this week we showcase the second…
This dramatic image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 3918,…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spent 15 years in space. In honor of this anniversary,…
After an almost two-year journey, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,…
The study, carried out by two researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, shows…
An enigmatic X-ray source revealed as part of a data-mining project for high-school students shows…
Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far…
The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using…
A team of researchers from Waseda University, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the University…
The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is…