Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their…
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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.
On September 9, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, saw two lunar transits as the…
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life…
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on September 15, 2017 when it plunged into…
Gravity is so much a part of our daily lives that it is all too…
Apart from a billion Milky Way stars, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft also observes extragalactic objects. Its…
Bright surface features on the dwarf planet Ceres known as faculae were first discovered by…
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from…
Revealing Solar System Time Capsules, Breaking Engineering Barriers NASA’s Dawn mission is drawing to a…
Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic…
The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions…
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or…
Wolf 503b, an exoplanet twice the size of Earth, has been discovered by an international…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a live-streamed Science Chat at 2 p.m. EDT…
The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn’s northern pole…
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic…
At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova.…