A set of instruments shut off almost 50 years ago are still producing useful results. It’s the...
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Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric...
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars...
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at...
How do you tell how old an astronomical object is? I mean, the next time the moon...
Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic observations of a high-redshift galaxy known...
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for...
SpaceX was poised to launch another critical test flight of its massive Starship rocket on Sunday, a...
Four and a half billion years ago, Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a new discovery by observing and analyzing...
The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are magical places. Dripping...
To study the origin and evolution of the universe, physicists rely on theories that describe the statistical...
Droughts are increasingly recognized as environmental crises with far-reaching consequences, not just on water availability, but on...
A research team led by Prof. Jiao Chengliang at the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of...
Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture...
On Mars, the past is written in stone—but the present is written in sand. Last week, Perseverance...
The universe captured by Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the ultra-wide field of view camera, is truly magnificent. In...
A new Durham University study has found that a giant impact may not be responsible for the...
It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B...