For thousands of years, humanity viewed the skies as unchanging, except for a few “wandering stars” (that...
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New research has uncovered compelling evidence that water from a comet is strikingly similar to that found...
One of the best places to study stars is inside “open clusters,” which are groups of stars...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding of...
The recent auction of a Martian meteorite—for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby’s New York—has sparked questions...
On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a stunning photo of an event originally thought...
A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shed new light...
Human activities key to kickstarting, speeding saltmarsh succession in South China Sea coral islands
Researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that human...
A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually...
A new theoretical study by University of Virginia astrophysicist Jonathan Tan, a research professor with the College...
In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found...
Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected...
In 2024, NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features...
A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at the University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa is...
Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The...
Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered a new fast radio burst,...
For farmers in the Taita hills in southern Kenya, elephants are a menace: they raid crops and...
SpaceX was not one of Amazon’s original choices to fly its Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites, but...
The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. But that doesn’t mean...
A mysterious extraterrestrial visitor now has a permanent home and identity, thanks to University of Georgia researchers.