NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data…
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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.
In the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) lies the impressive Coma Cluster — a…
Stars frequently form in crowded environments. By combining the resources of multi-wavelength missions like Chandra…
Astronomers from Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found evidence that…
Three hundred and ten miles above our planet’s surface, near-Earth space is abuzz with action.…
A long, brown oval known as a “brown barge” in Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt is…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has started a new mission to shed light on the…
In an unusual observation, astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)…
A human journey to Mars, at first glance, offers an inexhaustible amount of complexities. To…
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the spiral galaxy NGC…
The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host…
Gearing up for its first flight test, NASA’s Adaptable Deployable Entry Placement Technology, or ADEPT,…
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their…
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…