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
NASA's Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars
Read now →NASA's latest Mars rover and its partner helicopter Ingenuity have touched down safely
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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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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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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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