Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered…
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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.
NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54…
Supermassive black holes at the nuclei of most galaxies, including our Milky Way, develop gradually…
Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early…
Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists’ understanding of the Universe. A…
New research led by the University of Warwick reveals that globular clusters could be up…
A ripple of bright blue threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system. The…
Dunes are known to form on Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and Comet 67P – and…
Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only…
Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256…
See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter’s atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA’s…
To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to…
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet (900 meters) beneath…
Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of…
Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our…
Dr. Jane Lixin Dai, theoretical astrophysicist and assistant professor, and Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, both from…
Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of…
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cluster of hundreds of galaxies located about…