Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about primitive materials from exoplanetary...
ESA’s Euclid space telescope has been providing valuable data from the depths of space for almost two years. With its...
The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By...
Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over...
Europe’s Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark...
A new study using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) final datasets suggests potential inconsistencies in the standard cosmological model, known...
Swirling through the Milky Way’s central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of...
A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers...
A recent study reveals that the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” holds more mystery but is even less likely to...
New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy—the earliest...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...