NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol,…
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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.
There is a process at work in most galaxies that affects both the central black…
TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star that is slightly larger, but much more massive,…
One of the MASTER Global Robotic Net telescopes (MSU) located on Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands)…
Saturn’s shadow sweeps across the rings in a view captured on November 5, 2006 by…
This idyllic scene, packed with glowing galaxies, has something truly remarkable at its core: an…
The Hubble Space Telescope has not produced images of every object in the Messier catalog,…
New research has revealed that a giant impact on Mars more than four billion years…
This image captures a close-up view of a storm with bright cloud tops in the…
In the year and a half NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter, the science…
Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf…
Notanee Bourassa knew that what he was seeing in the night sky was not normal.…
Next year marks the 20th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launch into space. The…
Craters can tell scientists a lot about the surfaces of planets, moons, and other bodies.…
Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter’s Great Red…
Using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified nearly 200 “protoclusters,”…
Astronomers have put NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an…
Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets — including one ‘super-Earth’ that could harbor…