NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made an unexpected discovery — a pair of gravitationally bound quasars inside two merging galaxies that existed when the universe was just three billion years old.…
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Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main-belt comet
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has enabled another long-sought scientific breakthrough, this time for Solar System scientists studying the origins of the water that has made life on Earth possible. This…
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight to fly by Earth
This screenshot from NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System 3D visualization tool shows Lunar Flashlight making its close approach with Earth late on May 16. The CubeSat will pass about…
Researchers determine global thickness and density of Martian crust
Topographic map of the Martian surface (l.) and representation of the crust thickness (r.). Credit: MOLA Science Team / Doyeon Kim, ETH Zurich A strong quake in the last year…
Hubble captures light-bending galaxy cluster eMACS J1823.1+7822
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Like a submerged sea monster causing waves…
How fast is the universe really expanding? Multiple views of an exploding star raise new questions
Each of the four yellow dots is a separate image of Supernova Refsdal, which lies behind the bright blob of a galaxy cluster in the centre of the picture. Credit:…
Laboratory solar flares reveal clues to bursts of high-energy particles from space
Simulating solar flares on a scale the size of a banana, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers at Caltech have parsed out how these massive explosions blast potentially harmful energetic particles and X-rays into…
Astronomers just saw a star eat a planet—an astrophysicist on the team explains the first-of-its-kind discovery
For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named ZTF SLRN-2020, is located in the Milky Way galaxy, in…
NASA’s Perseverance Images May Show Record of Wild Martian River
Years ago, scientists noticed a series of curving bands of layered rock within Jezero Crater that they dubbed “the curvilinear unit.” They could see these layers from space but are…
Stuck antenna freed on Jupiter-bound spacecraft
In this frame grab from video provided by the European Space Agency, the second stuck part of the RIME antenna deploys, seen at right leaning vertically, on a spacecraft bound…
