Climate change threatens Antarctic meteorites

Antarctic meteorite (HUT 18036) partially in the ice, in contrast to most samples that are collected…

Inexplicable cloud of magnetized plasma found in Hydra galaxy cluster

GMRT radio image of the central region of the Hydra Cluster. The “head” of the Flying…

Dallas students elated by eclipse

The moon partially covers the sun during a total solar eclipse, as seen from Mazatlan, Mexico,…

Charting the night sky with exascale computers

This is a computer visualization of a cosmological simulation that is part of the ExaSky project.…

A total solar eclipse races across North America as clouds part along totality

The moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Monday, April 8,…

The sun was born when a dense gas cloud collapsed 4.6 billion years ago

The Cosmic Cliffs region of the universe is considered to be a hotbed of new star…

A bad idea in the 1960s, an even worse one now

Photograph taken from Honolulu of the aurora created by Starfish Prime. Credit: US government archive The…

Researchers enable detection of remarkable gravitational-wave signal

The coalescence and merger of a lower mass-gap black hole (dark gray surface) with a neutron…

NASA’s LRO finds photo op as it zips past South Korea’s Danuri moon orbiter

The dark spot centered in the bottom third of this image is the Korea Aerospace Research…

Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon’s ‘lopsided’ geology

Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a…