Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying...
Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds....
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal...
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except...
The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that...
Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars...
NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera,...
Prof. Zhao Yinghe from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, have conducted a study...
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were...
Dr. Feng Haicheng from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with his collaborators, has made progress...
Dr. Feng Haicheng from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with his collaborators, has made progress...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this...
