Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...
SpaceX is set to launch 4 people on a first-of-its-kind mission around Earth’s poles. Here’s what to know
A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...
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Sky Shorts: Hubble marks 35 years of space exploration
Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...
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Hubble Space Telescope Spots Chance Alignment 40 Million Light-Years Away from Earth
The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...
How Edwin Hubble Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Thought
A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...
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Earth-like planets may be more common than we thought
Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...
Scientists find a galaxy that defies conventional wisdom
Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...
James Webb telescope finds 'totally unexpected' ancient galaxy that defies theory
Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...
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In a Sky Full of Satellites, Astronomers Find Creative Ways to Observe the Stars
Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...
James Webb captures a rare astronomical ring in the sky
A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...