On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the...
Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky...
Since 2018 the Zwicky Transient Facility, an international astronomical collaboration based at the Palomar Observatory in California, has scanned the...
The first dark comet—a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet—was reported less...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in...
‘We live in a universe that is just right for us’: Study proposes a test for the Anthropic Principle
The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in...
Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet’s surface,...
A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy...
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of...
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon’s oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has detected magnetic distortions in solar wind, known as switchbacks. To better understand these phenomena,...
