A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from…
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Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth’s atmosphere, including stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, black holes, and the vast cosmos itself. It explores the origins, evolution, and fate of the universe through observation, theory, and cutting-edge technology such as telescopes, space probes, and satellite missions. From mapping distant galaxies to detecting exoplanets and probing cosmic microwave background radiation, astronomy connects physics, mathematics, and chemistry to unravel the mysteries of space and time—revealing our place in the universe and inspiring ongoing discoveries across astrophysics and cosmology.
New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could…
[October 26, 2020] Update: The announcement is that NASA has confirmed, for the first time,…
Climate changes associated with global warming can affect astronomical observations. That is the result of…
No one has yet found the first stars. They’re hypothesized to have formed about 100…
Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the…
Super Heavyweight and Flyweight in a Cosmic Dance Volunteer distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers neutron…
A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also…
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the…
The monstrous black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy—now of Nobel Prize…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way. Nearly 3 billion years…
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on October 15, 2020, as…
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business. University of Iowa astronomers have determined…
The “SAINT-EX” Observatory, led by scientists from the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR…
In this spectacular image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 2799…
It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a…
At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a…
“Clusters form big families of stars that can stay together for large parts of their…