ESA’s Solar Orbiter has successfully completed four months of painstaking technical verification, known as commissioning.…
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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.
An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii,…
The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is…
Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet, demonstrating…
A team of researchers simulated conditions on water-rich exoplanets in the laboratory and learned something…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet…
For decades astronomers have been puzzled by a gap that lies between neutron stars and…
In a first, astronomers may have seen light from the merger of two black holes,…
Most massive quasar known in early universe discovered on Maunakea. The second-most distant quasar ever…
International researchers led by University of Göttingen find multiple planet system orbiting Gliese 887. The…
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble…
Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away…
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind…
https://youtu.be/wwFXMhCZYPw Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you…
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planets.…
As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching…
Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events…
New Direct Images Captured with W. M. Keck Observatory’s Upgraded Adaptive Optics System Lead to…