Since its inception in 1990, the Human Genome Project has led to breakthroughs in our understanding of...
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Mercury remains one of our solar system’s most elusive and difficult planets to study. It’s easier to...
In the near future, powerful new telescopes will power a big leap in exoplanet science. Telescopes like...
A core-collapse supernova occurs when a massive star reaches the end of its life. After running out...
We’ve gotta give credit to space scientists. They come up with great names for things, probably because...
Seven billion light-years from Earth, there is an unexpected cluster of galaxies. It has two regions in...
Today, the question of where life’s building blocks come from is largely settled. Thanks to numerous discoveries...
The age of exoplanet science took shape with the Kepler mission, and gained more momentum with the...
Two annual meteor streams offer good cause to watch the sky in October. Fall meteor season has...
Brown dwarfs are the black (or brown?) sheep of astronomy. They’re too big to be considered a...
After five-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has set a distance record for travel on another...
![These images of Pa30 were captured with the Gemini North Telescope and its [S ii] filter. It reveals far more filaments than previous images, and shows that the filaments are cascades of knots. Image Credit: Tim Cunningham et al 2026 ApJ 1010 28](https://astrobitica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/apjae9cb2f1_hr_20261014_142633-768x765.jpg)
In 1181, astronomers, poets, and diary keepers in China and Japan recorded a ‘guest star’ in Cassiopeia....
The Sun is so intensely bright we can’t safely look at it directly. We need a filter...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover gives us another amazing view of its Gale crater home. Mars is a...
In the 1930s, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar placed a limit on stars. Using our understanding of relativity and quantum...
When astronauts first travel to Mars, or anywhere else in deep space, they will have to contend...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System and has a planetary magnetosphere to match! Since...
Massive stars meet their demise in powerful supernova explosions. These cataclysmic events light up the sky for...
Most of what happens to any individual star during its lifetime is determined by its mass. Massive...
ESA’s Hera is set to provide some spectacular new views of a familiar binary asteroid. In just...