If all goes well, on Thursday morning a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will be headed to a...
When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a...
ESA’s Gaia provides many new and improved insights into our galaxy and beyond with the release of five new data...
Within a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) lies a dramatic region of star birth—NGC 346,...
Solving the mystery of how planets like Earth were formed is an important question for understanding the origin of life....
The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is...
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead...
A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of...
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The...
by Chris Evans, Mark McCaughrean, Sandor Kruk, and Sam Pearson, European Space Agency New images of the Orion Nebula from...
In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the universe expands, and...
Observations of the BlueWalker 3 prototype satellite show it is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, outshining...
