This summer, humanity embarks on its first mission to touch the Sun: A spacecraft will…
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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.
For thousands of years, people have been puzzling over the milky strip that extends across…
Astronomers in the past decade have detected thousands of galaxies dating from epochs only a…
An international collaboration operating NASA’s NuSTAR satellite has revealed that two of the biggest stars…
Obtained for a research program on star formation in old and distant galaxies, this NASA/ESA…
In the blink of an eye, a massive star more than 2 billion light-years away…
Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere…
Findings from a Rochester Institute of Technology study provide further evidence that the outskirts of…
A thin gap has been discovered on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HRD), the most fundamental of…
In the summer of 2018, the planets Mars and Saturn are, one after the other,…
A lunar eclipse will be visible over much of the Earth on July 27, 2018.…
Astronomers conduct successful test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity near supermassive black hole. The…
Data from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured…
A new paper published in Science this week suggests that liquid water may be sitting under…
Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent…
A team of astronomers has discovered a new way to unlock the mysteries of how…
Using radar to probe the polar ice caps of Mars, scientists have detected an underground…
New comprehensive mapping of the radiation pummeling Jupiter’s icy moon Europa reveals where scientists should…