GJ 504 b has been one of astronomy’s stranger nearby worlds for years, a faint pink companion circling a sunlike star 57 ...
IceCube neutrino source starburst galaxy: astronomers traced a 750-teraelectronvolt ghost particle to Shadow Blaster, a ...
Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...
There’s bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available as a preprint on arXiv from researchers at NASA’s ...
In astronomers’ speak, the term galactic bulge stands for the dense cluster of billions of stars, many of them packed tightly ...
A new telescope atop a mountain in Chile will help scientists look back to when the universe had just begun.
NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to ...
In swirling gases and dust in deep space, students saw an apple, a tomato, a jellyfish and a brain. The students called out their excited guesses as they tried to see the image that inspired the ...
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic ...
An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...
A tiny optical component captures multiple polarization images at once, helping telescopes track solar magnetic fields with ...