ASTRONOMY

A dusty, compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn

An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark has identified a distant...

Team behind discovery of planet with three stars retracts their article

An international team of researchers who published a paper in the journal Science in 2016 describing their discovery of an exoplanet with three stars,...

Chinese astronauts return to Earth after six months on space station

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, ending China's longest crewed mission as it continues its quest to...

Earliest record of a candidate aurora found in Chinese annals

A celestial event mentioned in an ancient Chinese text turns out to be the oldest known reference to a candidate aurora, predating the next...

Video: Space telescope ‘a little like a time machine’

Assistant professor Michael Maseda was one of many who contributed to development of the James Webb Space Telescope. He looks forward to using the instrument...

Largest comet ever seen has a heart ‘blacker than coal,’ and it’s headed this way

Astronomers have measured the icy heart of one of the largest comets ever discovered — a gargantuan, 4 billion-year-old rock that's currently barreling toward...

Modeling Earth’s magnetosphere in the laboratory

A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth...

Image: The largest antenna ever tested in ESA’s Hertz radio frequency test chamber

The largest antenna ever tested in ESA's Hertz radio frequency test chamber is this 5-m diameter transponder antenna, which will operate down on the...

Is it time to send another message to intelligent aliens?

Researchers want to open up a dialogue about what humanity should advertise about itself in deep space. Scientists have crafted a new message for any...

NASA’s ‘Mega moon rocket’ test resumes. Why were so many details about it kept secret?

NASA's was extra guarded about its big rocket test. NASA's new mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), is getting one step closer to...

The next great North American total solar eclipse is 2 years from today

Totality will last nearly 5 minutes in some places. Exactly two years from today, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America, plunging tens...

Differences between the Moon’s near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact

The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside is dominated...

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