Astronomers working on ‘first light’ results from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a…
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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.
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on…
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures…
Scientists Find Earth and Moon Not Identical Oxygen Twins Scientists at The University of New…
Infalling gas found, star-forming galaxies likely primary energy source of Lyman-alpha radiation emitted from gigantic…
The subject of this Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, a spiral galaxy named…
This updated catalog of trans-Neptunian objects and the methods used to find them could aid…
Researchers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed an extreme planet where they suspect…
A new study, conducted to better understand the origin of the universe, has provided insight…
By combining modern data analysis techniques with stellar structure modeling for main-sequence and giant stars,…
Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young…
A star that pulses on just one side has been predicted in theory. But it…
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, studies the universe with infrared light. That’s a…
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, seen here as viewed by the Wide Field Camera…
[Editor’s Note: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was officially renamed the Nancy Grace…
Some of the extremely low-density, “cotton candy like” exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings,…
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from…
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made…