NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the features characteristic of so-called elliptical…
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window into the universe, with the…
The best hope for people with an inherited form of kidney disease that causes kidney…
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter…
For the first time, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during…
A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinosaur…
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The Smithsonian today made available a new online interactive that allows users to explore a…
Frogs already knew it wasn’t easy being green, but the going just got a lot…
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense…
Dotted across the sky in the constellation of Pictor (The Painter’s Easel) is the galaxy…
Why do our eyes tend to be drawn more to some shapes, colors, and silhouettes…
Few of the universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. These limelight-hogging celestial…
Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive “history book” of galaxies into one…
Sperm start their sprint to the ovum when they detect changes in the environment through…
X-ray observations have found copious amounts of very hot gas in galaxy clusters, and in…
Observers watching January’s total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash…