Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.
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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 .. ...
Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel is slightly skeptical about a new study that used AI to tease out a black hole's secrets.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars and galaxies.
Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy.
Spiral galaxies often dazzle with their swirling arms, but UGC 11397, caught in Hubble's latest snapshot, hides a supermassive secret. Nestled 250 million light-years away in the constellation Lyra, this galaxy hides a crazy secret at its heart--a .. ...
Researchers say satellites may be at risk and impact could create a spectacular meteor shower in the skies ...