The Einstein Probe is revolutionizing our view of the distant X-ray universe, offering an unprecedented look at some of the ...
Episode 6 of the Big Island volcano’s latest eruption, which began the week of Christmas 2024, is underway as lava flows onto ...
Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned ...
An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.
Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of signals.
Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," ...
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...
The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...
The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.