The Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky Way's closest spiral neighbor, sits 2.5 million light-years away. For over 25 years, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has been peeling back the universe's high-energy secrets, and its latest work is a new portrait of . ...
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Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of carbon monoxide gas from it's solid icy core.
This discovery marks a major breakthrough in astronomy and the ongoing search for planets outside our solar system.
About the mass of Saturn and 110m light years from Earth, TWA 7 b provides insights into an infant planetary system ...
Different methods of measuring the Universe's expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?
Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.
Vera C. Rubin's research into stars in galaxies led to the modern understanding of dark matter.
Curiosity, NASA's battle-scarred rover, has been exploring the Red Planet since 2012 like a cosmic detective, and now it's stumbled into a strange area near Mount Sharp. The ground here is etched with boxwork patterns--delicate, crisscrossing ridges ...
Ian Sample is joined by Dr Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, to find out how Pluto lost its planetary status, why scientists think there could be another super-Earth, and why planet nine has been so hard to find . ...
Built high on Cerro Pachón in Chile's Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has powered up its massive 3.2-gigapixel camera. These first images, snapped in just 10 hours of test runs, offer a thrilling taste of the observatory's decade-long Legacy .. ...