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New simulations explain how the ringed planet ended up with one giant moon that domineers its tinier siblings. (2020)
With access to a distant enough telescope, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration could discern multiple reflections of light streaming from aro... (2020)
Astronomers find evidence of the most powerful explosion ever seen in the history of the Universe. What do we know about this mammoth eruption? The... (2020)
A planet-spanning virtual observatory, years in the making, could change how we think about space, time and the nature of reality. Will it work? (2018)
Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in ... (2018)
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies i... (2018)
Scientists have detected a black hole thought to be about 800 million times as massive as our sun that is helping to reveal when the universe fille... (2017)
Silicon carbide transistors could let landers survive for months rather than hours (2017)
Atlas Obscura, 2017: "A Woman Who Spent Her Life Observing the Sun Is Finally Getting Scientific Recognition. Hisako Koyama is being lauded for ... (2017)
A NASA researcher proposed the idea back in 1971. The lava tunnels of the moon, like the mythical canals of Mars, have proved elusive — until now. (2017)
Medium, 2017: "If you thought all we could see is all that’s out there, prepare to rethink everything you knew...Imagine that the Universe we obse... (2017)
The International Astronomical Union has issued the preliminary results from a study on the potential effects of multi-thousand satellite constella... (2020)
In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotat... (2018)
We’re not in immediate danger of any asteroids colliding with Earth — at least not as far as anyone’s aware. But it’s not like it hasn’t happened b... (2020)
ESO, European Southern Observatory, 2017: ESO’s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet around Ross 128. A temperate Earth-sized planet h... (2017)
Seeing meaning in the stars is a vital part of the scientific story. Newton bought a book on astrology but couldn’t make sense of it. So he bega... (2020)
Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get near... (2021)
'Oumuamua, the first object known to have come from beyond the solar system, might have gotten its oblong shape when a planet was shredded by a far... (2020)
The telescope, a major part of the National Science Foundation’s Solar National Solar Observatory, will become fully operational this July. (2020)
A super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say. (2019)
“We will eventually see if they are actually habitable and, perhaps, even inhabited,” astronomers predict. (2019)
An Interview with the Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb About the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua Isaac Chotiner interviews Avi Loeb, the ch... (2019)
New research shows a pattern of exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars unlike what we see in our own system (2018)
A statistical analysis says that black holes can make up no more than 40 percent of dark matter, the strongest limit yet (2018)
The brightest parts of the world are getting brighter - light pollution on the rise around the globe. (2018)
"We revisit the idea of ‘terraforming’ Mars — changing its environment to be more Earth-like in a way that would allow terrestrial life (possibly i... (2018)
European Gaia spacecraft’s first major data dump — the most detailed 3D chart yet of our Galaxy — will keep researchers busy for decades... (2018)
The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending tim... (2018)
An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered ... (2018)
Setback for James Webb Space Telescope could have broader effects on agency’s astrophysics programme. (2018)
Astronomers have discovered a runaway supermassive black hole, the size of 20 million suns, speeding through space.The discovery is the first obser... (2023)
The James Webb Space Telescope is a miracle of modern science and engineering. With a 21-foot, gold-coated mirror protected by a sunshield that's t... (2022)
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope (2021)
In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star s... (2021)
What it took to collect these 54-million-year-old photons from a supermassive black hole... (2019)
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she’s an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes.... (2018)
Listen to this episode from On Point on Spotify. Was Mars once like Earth? Can you imagine the red planet once a verdant green? That might be stret... (2021)
The private space company run by Elon Musk launched 60 satellites into orbit this week. Science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel explains why astronome... (2019)
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than n... (2020)