President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire entrepreneur and private space traveler Jared Isaacman to become the ...
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 ...
Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as an explosion of matter that birthed the ...
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 ...
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...
Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space in between cosmic objects that aren ...