The crew of NASA’s Earth-bound simulated Mars habitat emerges after a year
The crew of NASA's Mars mission has stepped out of its craft after a year-long journey that never leaves Earth.The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months in…
Webb Space Telescope captures stunning merger of quasar and galaxy billions of light-years away
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have studied the interaction of quasars with satellite galaxies, revealing critical insights into the growth of galaxies in the early universe, the mass…
Dragon-shaped aurora and ‘scream of dying star’ are finalists for 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
From mesmerizing 'mythical monsters' to stunning distant constellations, the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year nominees showcase the magnificent beauty in the sky around us. Here are this year's stunning…
Cosmic Fireworks: Celebrate Independence Day with Webb’s Star Formation Spectacle
This new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a young protostar forming in a fiery hourglass-shaped molecular cloud. Captured using the MIRI instrument, this scene reveals dynamic outflows…
Rapidly cooling freaks are rewriting neutron star physics
Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. The material inside is squeezed so hard that scientists still don't know what shape it takes. A neutron star's…
Scientists have finally found 2 of the missing satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. What could this mean for astronomy?
Astronomers have discovered two new satellite galaxies in the Milky Way, and these discoveries could help us better understand dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of…
Webb and Hubble unite: a breathtaking 3D journey through the pillars of creation
This image is a mosaic of visible and infrared views of the same frame from the Pillars of Creation visualization. The 3D model of the pillars created for the visualization…
Black holes and dark revelations: Gravitational waves provide new clues about the composition of dark matter
Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole viewed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. Light from a background star located in the LMC is bent…
Relativity Revisited: How Modified Gravity Challenges Einstein and Dark Matter
Using gravitational lensing, scientists have revealed that dark matter can extend more than a million light-years from the galactic centers, offering significant corrections to our gravitational theories, or the concept…
A ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ interstellar explosion will be visible from Earth this summer: NASA
A star is dead? Keep your eyes skyward, stargazers: NASA predicts that a long-awaited “once-in-a-lifetime” star explosion — or nova — will be visible to the naked eye sometime this…