A luxury or a necessity?

This photo provided by NASA shows, from left to right, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch…

In search for alien life, purple may be the new green

Credit: Public domain From house plants and gardens to fields and forests, green is the color…

Why figuring out how potassium is destroyed in stars is important to understanding the universe

Globular clusters like NGC 2419, visible in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,…

Astronomers inspect open cluster Berkeley 50

The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram for Berkeley 50. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.04435 Using the Lowell Discovery Telescope…

NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space station

This undated photo provided by NASA shows a recovered chunk of space junk from equipment discarded…

Supporting the future of Mars exploration with supercomputers

These images are all from the same instant in the simulation. The two on the left…

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth

This photo provided by NASA shows the Perseverance Mars rover collecting a sample from a rock…

Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found

Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling…

New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite’s journey through space

Representative μCT slices from chips of the Winchcombe meteorite and contoured orientation data on the long…

Rubin observatory will reveal dark matter’s ghostly disruptions of stellar streams

Credit: National Science Foundation Glittering threads of stars around the Milky Way may hold answers to…