A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of...
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This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from...
On March 18, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center...
Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting...
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly...
An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science’s long-running questions—and it could change...
Neutrinos are among the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They are omnipresent yet interact extremely rarely...
A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up,...
Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the...
This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that...
Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in...
Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may...
Imagine if Earth’s history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where...
The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a...
The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly...
The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of...
Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny “ghost particles” that could solve some of...
Are we alone in the universe? The answer to one of humanity’s biggest questions is complicated by...
Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing...