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Webb Space Telescope Reveals Hidden Layers of the Iconic Horsehead Nebula
SciTechDaily· 4 hours agoThis image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of...
See the ‘Martian spiders of Inca City’ in new images
EarthSky· 2 hours agoThe European Space Agency (ESA) released more images of the enigmatic “spiders” and Inca City at the South Pole of Mars. Inca City is a series of hollows...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
NY Post via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoThe National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, or NOIRLab, houses 412,000 images in...
Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoThe Mt. Wilson Observatory changed the conception of humankind’s place in the universe and revealed...
Dark matter does exist, simulations indicate
Futurity· 19 hours agoCurrently, many physicists think something like dark matter must exist to explain the motions of stars and galaxies. “Our paper shows how we can use...
How to Watch the Dazzling Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower, Bringing an Unusual 'Outburst' to Skies This...
Smithsonian Magazine· 51 minutes agoRight now, bits of rock and ice from Halley’s comet are careening through the atmosphere at top...
Astronomers fight to save a major X-ray space telescope
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“It's a huge monetary and environmental toll to put an observatory up in space, so I think it’s...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 21 hours agoSelected as the target of China’s Tianwen-2 mission, Kamo’oalewa has been in space for several million years as one of a few of Earth’s co-orbital...
Einstein Probe X-ray telescope releases 1st images taken with 'lobster vision'
Space via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoLobster-eye X-ray vision has previously been deployed on missions that study the solar wind, on...
Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours
LiveScience· 6 days agoScientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way. The discovery,...