Measuring the distances to galaxies with space telescopes

An illustration of measuring a photometric redshift using six broadband imaging filters (left panel). A model…

Earth may have had all the elements needed for life—contrary to theories that they came from meteorites

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that…

Four eruptive young stellar objects discovered

Light curve of SPICY 99341. Photometric data from Gaia (green circles), is shifted by −7 magnitudes.…

Cow dung fuels Japan’s space ambitions

Japan’s space industry opens potentially an udder-ly new chapter with a start-up testing a prototype rocket…

Physics behind unusual behavior of stars’ super flares discovered

Modeled flare atmosphere and synthesized TESS light curves. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2023). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad077d Our…

NASA finds likely cause of OSIRIS-REx parachute deployment sequence

Credit: NASA NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept.…

NASA’s Psyche delivers first images and other data

This mosaic was made from “first light” images acquired by both of the cameras on NASA’s…

Black holes are missing in the early universe, and computers are after them

Artist’s concept of a black hole. This representation includes a disk of overheated material that is…

Astronomers discover galaxies have bipolar gas outflows reaching far into intergalactic space

Gas outflows (red) near spiral galaxies (white). The left image shows the outflow of gas for…

Astronomers investigate the Southern Beehive cluster

Observed Gaia DR3 color-magnitude diagram of selected members of the Southern Beehive cluster. Credit: arXiv (2023).…