NASA announces plan to map Milky Way with Roman Space Telescope

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Massive newborn star is firing two plasma jets at once

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years—and a few to watch

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...
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Asteroid belt — What it is, where it is and how it formed

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...
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The JWST reveals the molecular origins of planetary systems

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...
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What Did Carl Sagan Actually Mean When He Said "We Are All Made Of Star Stuff"?

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Katy ...

Massive stars make their mark in Hubble image

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy ...
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Baby Moons in the Making? The Discovery of a Moon-Forming Disk

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...