Stunning Photo Captures International Space Station Above Comet NEOWISE
The International Space Station, with a crew of five onboard, is seen in this 10-second exposure above comet NEOWISE, Saturday, July 18, 2020 from Keys…
The International Space Station, with a crew of five onboard, is seen in this 10-second exposure above comet NEOWISE, Saturday, July 18, 2020 from Keys…
New Cosmic Magnetic Field Structures Discovered in Galaxy NGC 4217 Superbubbles, giant loops and X-shaped magnetic field structures – this galaxy boasts a veritable wealth…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe ever created, filling in the most significant…
The telltale sign that the black hole was feeding vanished, perhaps when a star interrupted the feast. The event could lend new insight into these…
Many exoplanets known today are ‘super-Earths,’ with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and ‘mini-Neptunes,’ with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense,…
A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arching spiral arms that seemingly spin out from the galaxy’s center. In this image,…
The second most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name. Astronomers have discovered the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international…
A study conducted by scientists at São Paulo State University’s Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids…
The first images from Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission by ESA and NASA, have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed “campfires,” near the surface…
Look up toward the stars this month, and you just might spot the brightest comet to grace Northern Hemisphere skies in decades. In July 2020,…
Skygazers across the Northern Hemisphere are being treated to stunning views of comet NEOWISE as it streaks past Earth. Amateur astrophotographer Javier Manteca got a…
A simple model explains a wide range of observations by describing a contest between galaxy halos and their central black holes that eventually turns off…
The launch of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana is now planned for…
The newly discovered planet’s parent star is still encircled by the disk of material from which both objects formed, giving scientists a glimpse at early…
Atacama Cosmology Telescope findings suggest the universe is 13.8 billion years old. From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science…
By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a method to classify all gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), rapid…
NASA now is targeting October 31, 2021, for the launch of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope from French Guiana, due to impacts from the…
Rare event occurred 10 billion lightyears away, 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang SGRB181123B is the most distant short gamma ray burst with its…