A failed star known as "The Accident" is changing the way we look at the galaxy
Read now →The newly discovered brown dwarf is the first of its kind
What would photosynthesis look like around other stars?
Read now →Scientists have modeled possible plant behavior on alien worlds
Meet Nancy Grace Roman, the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope
Read now →She discovered fundamental truths about stars and galaxies, and also shaped NASA into what we know it as today
The Last Stargazer takes an intimate view of the world through telescopes
Read now →Emily Levesque's portrait of "delightful isolation" is astronomer-approved
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NASA's Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars
Read now →NASA's latest Mars rover and its partner helicopter Ingenuity have touched down safely
The first ever image of a black hole's swirling magnetic field is released
Read now →The Event Horizon Telescope has taken a new image of black hole M87, revealing its magnetic field
Let's go to Venus!
Read now →NASA's new DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions will explore Venus
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How dark is outer space? The New Horizons spacecraft is helping astronomers find out
Read now →Measurements from beyond Pluto shed light on the "fossil record" of our universe
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Distance and our eyes distort the true colors of stars
Read now →New research calculates the colors of stars based on their actual energy distributions
Dust is the surprisingly ordinary culprit behind a supergiant star's unusual dimming
Read now →When astronomers observed Betelguese last year, they saw it as far fainter than it should have been
Earth's oxygen is projected to run out in a billion years
Read now →As the Sun ages, Earth's processes will change
Rocks on Venus's surface are on the move
Read now →Scientists made this discovery by re-analyzing data from the 1990s
Uranus emits extra x-rays, and scientists don't know why
Read now →They could be just reflections, or Uranus could have its own version of the Northern Lights
Space travel is now open to the public
Read now →SpaceX's Inspiration4 has picked two new astronauts and will be launching September 2021
Richard Branson is officially the first billionaire to take off for space
Read now →Branson's Unity-22 flight ushers in an era of space tourism
NASA's Perseverance rover can make oxygen out of Martian air
Read now →The goal of putting humans on Mars is now one step closer
China lands its first rover on Mars, becoming the second country to do so
Read now →The Zhurong rover is the first Mars rover to carry a magnetometer
A new tweak to an old model explains the existence of primordial black holes
Read now →Black holes formed in the early universe could be linked to dark matter
#BlackInAstro founder Ashley Walker is fighting for equality in the space sciences
Read now →Just three percent of undergraduate physics degrees are awarded to Black students. Walker aims to change that (and a lot more!)
Community scientists have discovered an unusual brown dwarf star
Read now →Paul Beaulieu and Austin Rothermich were participating in the Backyard Worlds project. You can, too!
It's not just Gamestop: Elon Musk wants to send Dogecoin to the moon
Read now →The world of space exploration just got a little...weirder
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter achieves the first flight on another planet
Read now →30 seconds of flight on Mars is a universe-wide first
The Perseverance rover sends back the first photos and sounds from Mars
Read now →The rover's landing was captured in an incredible video
NASA releases the most detailed photo of Jupiter's largest moon to date
Read now →The image of Ganymede was taken by the Juno spacecraft