A fresh image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a deep view of the eye of a galactic needle. The spiral galaxy is nicknamed the "Needle's Eye", although more officially it is known as NGC 247 an… [+2444 chars]
New for 2022, the tau Herculid meteor shower may make an appearance on the night of May 30-31. Sometimes, astronomy can be full of surprises. Take the case of a tiny comet, normally far too faint t… [+11823 chars]
Image: NASA/Joel Kowsky On Friday evening, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft successfully docked onto the International Space Station as part of an uncrewed flight test for NASA's commercial cre… [+3023 chars]
Coral reefs are amazing, thriving ecosystems built of living geology and a fantastical array of fishes, bivalves, cnidarians, echinoderms and more. Diving into one or snorkeling above one is a magica… [+1937 chars]
On May 12, scientists from the international research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration unveiled the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole located at th… [+3077 chars]
In July of 2021, we reported how the Hope probe sent by the United Arab Emirates to study the Martian atmosphere had released images of the nightside aurora on Mars. "They're not easy to catch, and s… [+4922 chars]
): According to a new Cornell research at the National Academy of Sciences, Cnidocytes, often known as stinging cells, are found in corals and jellyfish. It makes us wary of our feet while wading in … [+3640 chars]
When SpaceX launched a new Starlink fleet into orbit last week, the rocket wasn't the only star. As SpaceXprepared its ground-based tracking cameras for the early-morning Falcon 9 rocket launch fro… [+2407 chars]
Meet the newest stars on the music scene. Well, not stars precisely. Messier 87 (M87), is an elliptical galaxy about 55 million light-years from Earth. At its center is a black hole with a mass that… [+3881 chars]
BySpace Telescope Science InstituteMay 22, 2022 A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period o… [+13417 chars]
On May 12, scientists from the international research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration unveiled the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole located at th… [+3077 chars]
When SpaceX launched a new Starlink fleet into orbit last week, the rocket wasn't the only star. As SpaceXprepared its ground-based tracking cameras for the early-morning Falcon 9 rocket launch fro… [+2407 chars]
