For about two hours, a bubble of extremely hot electrons whirled around the Milky Way’s supermassive…
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Astronomers trace fireball in Earth's skies to space rock that made it
In an effort to learn more about potentially hazardous asteroids, astronomers have used telescopic surveys to…
JWST has captured an astonishing view of Neptune and its rings
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows eight of Neptune’s moons and four…
Earth's algae and moss could survive under the light of another star
Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and…
Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life
Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from…
NASA is ready to knock an asteroid off course with its DART spacecraft
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test is preparing to crash into the asteroid Dimorphous in an attempt…
James Webb Space Telescope captures its first pictures of Mars
Infrared images of Mars taken by the James Webb Space Telescope could help us better understand…
Closest black hole to Earth is just 1500 light years away
A black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the sun is thought to…
Astronomy Photographer of the Year photos are out of this world
These images are some of the winning and shortlisted entries for this year’s competition, organised by…
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022
The winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 have been announced Click here…