GALAXY CRUISE, with the help of 10,000 citizen astronomers, discovers that galaxies’ star formation rate…
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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.
A groundbreaking study by University of Leeds scientists proposes that Be stars are part of…
The contrast between the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations and those of the Spitzer Space…
Hubble Captures the Isolated Beauty of NGC 2814 This Hubble Picture of the Week features…
A Telescope Larger Than the Earth Has Found a Plasma Rope In the Universe Using…
And the recovery journey involving a smashed telescope, a cougar scare, and police. Data from…
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem…
Using multiple observatories, astronomers directly detect tellurium in two merging neutron stars. An extraordinary burst…
Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have documented extraordinary, long-lasting radio emissions from…
An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by ESA’s Integral space telescope, has struck Earth.…
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create…
A team of astronomers used recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope to…
JWST’s latest image of the Crab Nebula reveals new details about its composition and structure,…
Saturn’s rings, now visible, will seem to disappear in 2025 due to a regular astronomical…
Follow-up observations in Pandora’s cluster confirmed the second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever seen, which…
JWST images reveal that 90% of early galaxies contained glowing gas that fueled massive star…
Euclid, the European Space Agency’s dark Universe detective, was launched on July 1, 2023. It…
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385 appears in two strikingly different Hubble telescope images, attributed…