Artist’s impression of the surface of the planet Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri. ESO/M. Kornmesserc By Dr....
Astronomy
Look beyond Earth through the history and science of astronomy, from early skywatchers to contemporary observatories. These studies show how changing instruments have expanded humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.
A young star over 30 times more massive than the Sun could help us understand how the...
08.19.2016 Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel...
Luis Argerich / Flickr By Dr. Christopher Conselice / 08.11.2016 Professor of Astrophysics University of Nottingham Even...
An artist’s concept of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. / NASA 08.05.2016 Launched five years ago on Aug....
An outburst of Perseid meteors lights up the sky in August 2009 in this time-lapse image. Stargazers...
The Ancient Greeks were the driving force behind the development of western astronomy and science, their philosophers...
07.29.2016 Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno...
07.25.2016 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu...
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s...
Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to...
Artist’s concept of the Juno mission to Jupiter. By Dr. Leigh Fletcher / 06.30.2016 Royal Society Senior...
This scene shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a location called “Windjana,” where the rover found rocks...
An international team of astronomers have detected glowing oxygen in a distant galaxy seen just 700 million...
K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date. It makes a...
This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. / NASA,...
By Dr. Graham Woan / 06.15.2016 Professor of Astrophysics University of Glasgow The international team of physicists...
The brightness of outbursting star FU Orionis has been slowly fading since its initial flare-up in 1936....
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the galaxies in the survey to refine the measurement...
DSAC is prepping for a yearlong experiment to characterize and test its suitability for use in future...
Dr. Allan Adams Associate Professor of Physics Theoretical Physicist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Allan Adams is a...
Credit: NASA 06.02.2016 For a few seconds early Thursday, night turned into day as an extremely bright...
Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an...
This illustration represents the best evidence to date that the direct collapse of a gas cloud produced...
NASA / 05.23.2016 Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been...
With NASA astronaut Alan Shepard aboard, Mercury Redstone-3, America’s first piloted spaceflight is launched on May 5,...
This image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows an emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud known...
Wes Mountain/The Conversation Our understanding of gravity has gone through a few permutations, from Newton’s equations through...
This enhanced-color view from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy...
X-ray: NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. Williams et al; Optical: DSS; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA When the star that created this supernova remnant...