The exoplanet HD 106906 b, depicted in this artist’s illustration, has an unusual orbit around a twin star 336 light-years away.
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Meet the Milky Way’s neighbor: the Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is a giant swirl of around a trillion stars just down the street from the Milky Way. But billions of years from now, it will collide with our home galaxy.
Astronomers Just Found An Ocean-Covered Super-Earth And It’s Amazing
One of the most fundamental reasons life exists on Earth is the abundance of liquid water on its surface.
Lava and frost may form the mysterious lumps on Jupiter’s moon Io
Jets of gas released when hot meets cold could explain what looks like dunes
WATCH: Something Escaped A Black Hole at Nearly the Speed of Light and NASA Recorded It
Chandra's four observations in November 2018 and February, May, and June 2019 provided a fresh film of this black hole's activities. It is revealed in The Astrophysical Journal Letters in a research conducted by Mathilde Espinasse of the University of Paris.
NASA Woke Up Voyager 1 From 13 Billion Miles Away, And The Spacecraft Actually Signalled Back
Have you ever tried starting a car that’s been sitting unused for a couple of decades?
The CAPSTONE mission is a technology demonstration and finding a way to collect data for future NASA crew missions to the Moon.
“You Won’t Believe Your Eyes” Recent Webb Images Will Blow Your Mind!
The universe is a place with endless possibilities. Before Edwin Hubble discovered the existence of the cosmos, scientists had always been curious about what exists beyond our blue skies.
Hoag’s Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)
Look closely at the serpent constellation slithering through the northern sky, and you might see a galaxy within a galaxy within a galaxy.
Novel Moon Mineral Found by China Could Sustain Human Energy for 10,000 Years
The newly discovered material, dubbed Changesite-(Y) contains helium-3. There are around 1.1 million metric tons of helium-3 on the lunar surface, enough to sustain human energy for at least a 10,000-year period.
NASA’s satellites have discovered water on the moon.
While orbiting the Moon, a NASA spacecraft found water molecules there. The results were presented in groundbreaking study using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
BREAKING: The Far Side Of Our Galaxy Has Been “Seen” For The First Time
It's a frequent cliche to say that we can't see the forest for the trees, but we might just as easily say that we can't see the Milky Way for the stars. We now have a more exact understanding of where things are on the other side of the galaxy, according to recent research based on an old astronomy method, filling in critical details to the map of our own cosmic backyard.
Earth Has Just Started Emitting Giant Magnetic Waves From its Core (Video)
Earth’s interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through the hot magmatic fluids far underneath the crust.
The science of how Earth will meet its ultimate end
For over 4 billion years, terrestrial life has survived and thrived.
Violent mergers might be robbing galaxies of their star-birthing material
A reconstruction of a cosmic crime scene shows that violent galaxy mergers might strip galaxies of their star-forming gas, thereby halting stellar birth.
