"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...
The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.
In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.
The James Webb Space Telescope has upended expectations again, revealing a massive spiral galaxy in the universe’s infancy ...
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and ...
NASM copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Preface: The dawn-light of Ravenna -- On the hilltop -- To the lighthouse -- The city of stars -- Poetry and sunspots -- "Black star-lore" -- ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. At an estimated distance of ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on 19 December, offering astronomers a rare early ...