Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny...
In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive...
Solar wind is a never-ending stream of charged particles coming from the sun. Rather than a constant breeze, this wind...
The Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors (EXIS) onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, are powered...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one...
Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer...
Long ago, flowing wind and water shaped Mars’s malleable sand and sediment into dunes, ripples and other landscape patterns, called...
Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the red planet’s...
Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe and are powered by material accreting onto supermassive black holes at...
An X-ray pulse may be able to vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, according to a...
A new analysis of maps of the near and far sides of the moon shows that there are multiple sources...
Solar flares are extremely intense events that occur in the sun’s atmosphere, lasting anywhere from a few minutes to several...
