Don’t Look Up: Several Asteroids Are Heading Towards Earth – Dealing With Real-Life Threats to Our Planet
Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change from reports of…
Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change from reports of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team fully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, successfully completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare…
Resembling a butterfly with only one wing, this glowing nebula hides a budding star. This ethereal image, captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory,…
Why can you see the Moon during the day? Easy, because it’s there! It may seem odd to look up at the daytime sky and…
Testing a new, direct method for determining the masses of supermassive black holes. Astronomers of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first…
By looking at the range of isotopic variations in terrestrial and meteoritic samples, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators have figured out…
Astronomers Capture Red Supergiant’s Death Throes “For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,” researcher says. For the first time ever, astronomers…
On January 1, 2022, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope officially passed the one-billion second mark. Hubble was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay on…
Gemini Observatory helps reveal that a stream of old stars at Milky Way’s edge is a shredded star cluster. A primordial stellar stream discovered in…
Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide and fragment. They are common:…
Magnetic fields are the essential, but often “secret” ingredients of the interstellar medium and the process of making stars. The secrecy shrouding interstellar magnetic fields…
Orion offers you a spectacular firework display to celebrate the holiday season and the new year in this new image from the European Southern Observatory…
An instrument made by scientists and engineers at the Center for Astrophysics has helped verify that — for the first time in history — a…
Observations of a distant stellar flare could contain the first evidence of coronal rain on a cool, small M-dwarf star. High-resolution spectroscopic observations of a…
An international team of astronomers, led by researcher Chervin Laporte of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB-IEEC), has used data…
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which…
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering small planets around the Sun’s nearest neighbor stars. TESS has…
Upending textbook explanations, astrophysicists from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency suggest that primordial black holes account for all dark…