NASA Gears Up for Weekend Launch Carrying Missions to Study the Milky Way and Sun
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.
A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years aw…
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
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Our Beautiful and Fragile Planet Takes Center Stage in the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards
The World Awards were founded in the belief that we can all make small efforts to shape the future of our planet in a ...
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up Out Of The Blue — And Scientists Have No Explanation For It
And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...
'Ghosts of the radio universe': Astronomers have discovered a slew of faint circular objects
Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than ...
Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't ...
How will Nasa’s SPHEREx telescope change our understanding of the cosmos?
Nasa’s SPHEREx is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on8. The $488 million ...
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Explore 30 years of exoplanet discoveries
Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.
6 Mind-Blowing Facts About New NASA Discovery From Edge Of Our Solar System
Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...