NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive…
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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.
New research reveals that the center of our Milky Way contains a “trap” that concentrates…
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project has discovered its first substellar object, WISEA…
A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has discovered the smallest star…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Enceladus’ intriguing south-polar jets from afar, backlit by sunlight while the…
NASA scientists, with the help of the Van Allen Probes mission, have recorded the eerie…
This Hubble image of the week shows galaxy NGC 4242, which is located 30 million…
Using the ALMA facility, a team of astronomers is the first to obtain spatially resolved…
Two separate teams of researchers have identified major challenges for the development of life in…
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured new images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot,…
By studying the distribution of the X-rays and their properties in the giant molecular cloud…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory observes a sunspot that is the first to appear after the…
New research reveals that two closely orbiting stars may appear in images as a single…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot…
By combining two-fluid global hydrodynamics simulations with a radiative transfer code, astronomers from the University…
A team of researchers has discovered a rich inventory of molecules at the center of…
A newly published Harvard-Smithsonian study of the twenty-four known Y-dwarfs finds that the models for…
This Hubble image of the week shows spiral galaxy NGC 2500, which is located roughly…