After half a year of in-space commissioning work, NASA will release the first science images from its next-generation space observatory in July. Here's how you can tune in to the historic event for f… [+2572 chars]
ByChandra X-ray CenterJune 23, 2022 The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical image from the Digi… [+8321 chars]
Early Sunday, the Milky Way was tinted in an unusual shade of red, mystifying sky-gazers across the Mid-Atlantic. Only a few people recorded the sight on camera, which was not visible to the human e… [+2300 chars]
Over the past few weeks, a group of engineers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Airbus Netherlands and NASA has been working on installing the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone on NA… [+3038 chars]
SN 1054 was one of the most spectacular astronomical events of all time. The supernova explosion eventually formed what is today known as the M1 – the Crab Nebula. But in 1054 AD, the year it occurre… [+3776 chars]
image: UCF Planetary Scientist Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin is based at the NSF Arecibo Observatory.view more Credit: Arecibo Observatory/UCF When asteroid 2019 OK suddenly appeared barreling tow… [+5917 chars]
Galactic collisions are a common event that occurs across the universe. In fact, collisions between galaxies are a natural part of galaxy formation, and it is likely that every galaxy, including the … [+3857 chars]
In late 2021, operators of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm constellation noticed something worrying: The satellites, which measure the magnetic field around Earth, started sinking toward the … [+9275 chars]
Spoiler alert: if you ever find yourself engaged in a staring contest with a snake, you'll lose. "Because snakes don't have eyelids, they cannot blink," explains Bruno Simões, a researcher at the Un… [+2807 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted evidence of a white dwarf star devouring rocky and icy material from its own system, suggesting that water and other volatiles might be common in the outer reac… [+2500 chars]
What properties would we expect to see when solutions of nucleotide monomers are dried on a mica surface? Because the surface of the mica was rinsed with a stream of water, most of the monomers shoul… [+14442 chars]
A gigantic sunspot has swelled to twice Earth's size, doubling its diameter in 24 hours, and it's pointed right at us. The sunspot, called AR3038, grew to 2.5 times Earth's size making the sunspot … [+4908 chars]
