New Model Raises Doubt About the Composition of 70% of Our Universe – Dark Energy May Simply Not Exist!
Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for…
Researchers the world over have long believed that 70 percent of the universe is composed of dark energy, a substance that makes it possible for…
In the quest for habitable planets beyond our own, NASA is studying a mission concept called Pandora, which could eventually help decode the atmospheric mysteries…
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say. MIT astronomers have discovered new and unusual galactic neighborhoods that previous studies…
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most…
New observations of asteroid Apophis – thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068 – rule out any chance of impact for…
Black Hole Seeds Key to Galaxies Behemoths A new black hole breaks the record — not for being the smallest or the biggest — but…
This Hubble Picture of the Week revisits the Veil Nebula, a popular subject for Hubble images! This object was featured in a previous Hubble photo…
Challenging assumptions about the possibility of modern life on Mars. In a comment recently published in Nature Astronomy, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl…
Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength domain and the other in the radio-wave domain….
Jovian jet streams above the cloud tops measured using the aftermath of comet collision. Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute…
The Next Full Moon is the Worm, Crow, Crust, Sap, or Sugar Moon; the Pesach, Passover, or Paschal Moon; the Holi Festival Moon; Medin or…
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light. MIT Haystack Observatory is one of the 13 stakeholder institutions that constitute the Event…
The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. Asteroid 99942…
eROSITA space telescope finds largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-rays. In the first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG, astronomers at…
Data from ESA’s Gaia star mapping satellite have revealed tantalizing evidence that the nearest star cluster to the Sun is being disrupted by the gravitational…
Astronomical data from three new objects have been translated into sound as part of a data sonification project. The Chandra Deep Field, the Cat’s Eye…
Using light from the Big Bang, an international team led by Cornell and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has begun to…
At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer sky, beats a source of high-energy cosmic ray particles: the Cygnus…