Sitting between Mars and Jupiter, the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt is packed full of rocky bodies…
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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.
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated…
How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. Astrophysicists…
In the last decade we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will…
In the center of the galaxy OJ 287, there is one active, super-mass-rich black hole.…
This rich and dense smattering of stars is a massive globular cluster, a gravitationally-bound collection…
Astronomical masers (the radio wavelength analogs of lasers) were first identified in space over fifty…
After a nearly twenty-year-long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have…
This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. NASA’s Juno…
Before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew through the Pluto system in July 2015, many New…
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s…
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the NASA/ESA…
The central black holes may be the driving force in how much star formation occurs…
Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot Crater,…
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of…
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving…