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UArizona Astronomers to Help NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Peer into...
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UArizona Astronomers to Help NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Peer into Space's Past
Following a brief ocean voyage,...
New class of habitable exoplanets represent a big step forward in...
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate...
Interstellar comets like Borisov may not be all that rare
Astronomers calculate that the Oort Cloud may be home to more visiting objects than objects that belong to our solar system.
In 2019, astronomers spotted...
Wandering black holes
Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through space—but catching them in the act has proven difficult.
Every massive galaxy is believed...
Astronomers find a ‘break’ in one of the Milky Way’s spiral...
The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it.
Scientists have...
Observatory in Chile takes highest-resolution measurements of asteroid surface temperatures ever...
The study's target, Psyche, is the destination of an upcoming NASA mission
A close examination of the millimeter-wavelength emissions from the asteroid Psyche, which NASA...
V404 Cygni: Huge rings around a black hole
Black holes are one the universe's ultimate mysteries, hard to even imagine. But thanks to a recently released NASA image, we can visualize one...
Clays, not water, are likely source of Mars ‘lakes’
Bright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new...
First detection of light from behind a black hole
Fulfilling a prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, researchers report the first-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from the far side of a black...
Global project observes rare meteor showers and meteorite falls
As billionaires battle it out in a space race that only a handful of the world's richest persons can play, a highly inclusive international...
Ride with Juno as it flies past the solar system’s biggest...
The probe flew closer to Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the...
