The 2024 eclipse provided a rare view of the sun. Here’s a look at the early data
WASHINGTON, DC — Scientists threw everything they had into the sky during the solar eclipse that engulfed much of the […]
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NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for a planetary astronomer
Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might
The cataclysmic origin of most of Earth’s meteorites has been found
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be traced back to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and
Using AI, historians trace how astronomical ideas spread in the 16th century
Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the
A distant quasar’s black hole is surprisingly large for its galaxy
The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical
The spiky filaments of a zombie star shed light on a 12th-century supernova
About 7,500 light years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tentacles of hot sulfur. No one knows
A cosmic census triples the known number of black holes in dwarf galaxies
A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to inhabit miniature
Uranus may have looked strange when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
Some of the apparent quirks of Uranus may be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew
A first look at the rocks from the far side of the moon creates a volcanic mystery
The first samples from the far side of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south
NASA’s Perseverance rover found a new possible environment for Martian life
WASHINGTON DC – The Perseverance rover on Mars may have encountered the oldest rocks humans have ever seen and, possibly,