Astronomy

Amazing Reader Views of Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS From Around the World

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survived perihelion to become a fine dusk object for northern hemisphere observers.

2 days ago

Astronomers Discover Potential New Building Block of Organic Matter in Interstellar Space

Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of all dry biomass. When…

3 days ago

Death of a Comet: S1 Didn’t Survive its Sungrazing Plummet

Sungrazer C/2024 S1 ATLAS breaks apart at perihelion.

4 days ago

Did Some of Earth’s Water Come from the Solar Wind?

The source of Earth's water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad…

1 week ago

Building Bricks out of Lunar Regolith

It was 1969 that humans first set foot on the Moon. Now, over 50 years later we are setting sights…

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The Webb Discovers a Rich Population of Brown Dwarfs Outside the Milky Way

This stunning image of a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is more than just a pretty picture.…

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Neutron Stars May be Shrouded in Extremely Light Particles Called Axions

Since the 1960s, astronomers have theorized that the Universe may be filled with a mysterious mass that only interacts with…

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New Research Reveals Provides Insight into Mysterious Features on Airless Worlds

Between 2011 and 2018, NASA's Dawn mission conducted extended observations of Ceres and Vesta, the largest bodies in the Main…

2 weeks ago

China’s ‘Thousand Sails’ Joins Starlink as the Latest Mega-Satellite Constellation in Orbit

With 'Thousand Sails,' China joins the race to fill up Low Earth Orbit with mega-satellite constellations.

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Dark Matter Has a Firm Grip on These Galaxies

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1270 lies about 240 million light-years away. But it's not alone. It's part of the Perseus…

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