Jim Bridenstine, who served as NASA administrator during Trump’s first term, stated, “Jared’s vision for pushing boundaries, ...
NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...
The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...
Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...
New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...
Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...
The Big Bang should be thought of as a "point" in time but not happening at a particular place. Astronomers will often say ...
Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation, billions of times more energetic than visible light.
The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...