We Earth-dwellers have Earth-centric idea of the Universe and that's probably fine. From sunrise to sunset (and beyond), we eat, drink, work and sleep on one single planet. Human colonies on Moon and… [+1404 chars]
Bright turquoise plumes ripple through the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, like waves in the ocean in a spellbinding new view shared by NASA. The venerable Hubble Space Tel… [+2129 chars]
Most asteroids are innocuous. But a frightful few of these leftovers from the Solar Systems formation are planet killers. The nightmarish possibilities of a collision with Earth motivate space age… [+4082 chars]
Thousands of asteroids, meteors and comets have been whizzing past the Earth over millions of years. Throughout history, our planet has been a victim of multiple asteroid strikes, including the one t… [+2440 chars]
A single chemical could be responsible for whether people go bald or not, a new study has found. In the UK, approximately two thirds of men will face male pattern baldness. The study says the discov… [+1584 chars]
ByHarvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsJuly 26, 2022 A Hubble image of a red galaxy acting as a gravitational lens for a more distant blue galaxy, bending its light into an arc. Exoplanets can… [+4977 chars]
Does anybody remember GLASS-z13? No? It was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and championed as the "oldest galaxy ever seen" and it was announced... six days ago. Yes, that's right. Not ev… [+4762 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with several universities in the U.S., working with the Goddard Space Flight Center, has used a deep-learning algorithm to create maps of ship tracks across the plane… [+2721 chars]
The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO), and its partners, Stars Shine for Everyone (Sterren Schitteren voor Iedereen, SSVI) and the University of Leiden, have announced the awardees of the 2022 … [+2187 chars]
Title: Constraining the Planet Occurrence Rate around Halo Stars of Potentially Extragalactic Origin Authors: Stephanie Yoshida, Samuel Grunblatt, Adrian Price-Whelan First Authors Institution: Dep… [+4896 chars]
A research team of quantum physicists have worked in collaboration with and partly funded by the UKs Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), to devise novel approaches that not only reduce … [+4982 chars]
New footage showing a giant, peculiar-looking tentacled sea creature floating languidly in the depths of the Pacific Ocean has left researchers questioning if what they’re seeing is a new species. A… [+3644 chars]
