Artist’s impression of a quasar shining through a galaxy’s ‘super halo’ of hydrogen gas. A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)...
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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...
Lisle Police Department dashcam By Kathy Gill / 02.06.2017 Night owls in Illinois and Wisconsin were treated...
NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus hidden by gas and dust, is seen in...
01.03.2017 NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time,...
Jupiter’s South Pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on August 27 2016. Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS, processed by...
Earth’s limb at night, seen from the International Space Station, with air glow visual composited into the...
Members of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program collect a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite from a glacial...
11.09.2016 The moon is a familiar sight in our sky, brightening dark nights and reminding us of...
Astronomer and Radcliffe fellow Dimitrios Psaltis is working on black holes as part of the massive Event...
Enjoy the full moon’s glow. mstollenwerk By Dr. Christopher Palma / 11.08.2016 Senior Lecturer and Associate Department...
Wikimedia Commons 11.03.2016 Humans sometimes struggle to adjust to Daylight Saving Time, but just measuring the exact...
Computers weren’t always made of motherboards and CPUs. At one time, they were human! And at NASA’s...
10.19.2016 After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASA’s MAVEN...
This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. / Credits:...
Light from the universe’s first galaxies destroyed the hydrogen atoms that formed during the Big Bang. NASA,...
The fragmented remains of the Antikythera mechanism. Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis By Dr. Mike Edmunds / 07.20.2016 Emeritus Professor...
The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard the Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft captured this image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on...
09.29.2016 Using data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other facilities, an international team of scientists...
Artist’s concept of Rosetta shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on Sept. 30, 2016. / Credits: ESA/ATG medialab...
This composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the...
Credits: NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI), Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) This image, taken by...
09.23.2016 In the last century, humans realized that space is filled with types of light we can’t...
09.22.2016 Since its launch on Sept. 22, 2006, Hinode, a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...