In a galaxy far away, two dead stars begin a final spiral into a massive collision. The...
Astronomy
GHOST IN THE SHELL – What looked like an ordinary supernova, shown in this artist’s illustration, might...
Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Map of all matter – most of which is invisible dark matter – between Earth and the...
Illustration of hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from the neutron stars just before they collided. NASA’s...
A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling...
Relative positions of distant spacecraft. / NASA, JPL Caltech By Dr. Michael Strauss / 02.22.2017 Professor of...
An illustration of Cassini diving between Saturn and the planet’s innermost ring. NASA/JPL-Caltech By Dr. Tanya Hill /...
‘A movie camera to watch the whole universe’; an artist’s conception of the LSST inside its dome...
Detail from an impressionistic poster of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. / Amanda Smith, IoA By Dr. Amaury...
The Pancam on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took the component images of this enhanced-color scene during...
NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size...
This artist’s concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. It is the hottest gas giant...
Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope of 1671 / The Royal Society, London By Thony Christie / 03.28.2017 Historian...
Artist’s conception of two merging black holes, spinning in a nonaligned fashion. LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) By...
Working with image data from NASA’s Cassini mission, researchers have found evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may...
A team of astronomers at The Ohio State University watched a star disappear and possibly become a...
Astronomers have made the first measurements of small-scale fluctuations in the cosmic web 2 billion years after...
Aristarchus’s 3rd-century BCE calculations on the relative sizes of (from left) the Sun, Earth and Moon,...
The James Webb Space Telescope is pushed into the clean room of Building 32. Building 32 houses...
Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun, which is blocked by the planet in this view....
Artist’s impression of a quasar shining through a galaxy’s ‘super halo’ of hydrogen gas. A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)...
Look ma, no gravity! / NASA By Andy Tay / 03.09.2017 PhD Candidate in Bioengineering University of...
Lecture by Dr. Joseph Silk at the Museum of London / 03.01.2017 Homewood Professor of Physics and...
Astronomers have made the most detailed observation yet of an ultra-fast wind emanating from a Black Hole...
Artist’s impression of what the view might be like from the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f. NASA/JPL-Caltech...
Astronomers are borrowing principles applied in biology and archaeology to build a family tree of the stars...
The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by...
Portrait of William Shakespeare 1564-1616. Chromolithography after Hombres y Mujeres celebres 1877 / Barcelona Museum Lecture by...