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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, humans have worshipped the Sun. Our ancestors built monuments and temples to it, and used it to mark the annual cycle of seasons. For ancient Egyptians, [...]

The earliest stars changed the course of cosmic history. We are finally on the verge of seeing them, says Stuart Clark AS TURNING points in cosmic history go, the birth [...]

A plucky space probe could be about to redraw the frontiers of our solar system, finds Becca Caddy NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at [...]

SOMETIMES THEORY DOESN'T STAND UP TO observational scrutiny. The steady state model ended up on the ash heap of history when astronomers saw evidence that the cosmos is expanding. And [...]

We appear to live in a patch of space so vast and empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology. To explain it, we may have to reimagine gravity, says [...]

We've known of Europa's existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon was just a pinprick of light in our telescopes-a bright and [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2024 Mars' ancient landscape was shaped by wind and water, with these forces sculpting the planet's sand and sediment into patterns such as dunes [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 26, 2024Mars wasn't always the cold desert we see today. There's increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet's surface, billions of years ago. [...]

Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Sep 26, 2024 Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 26, 2024In a remarkable discovery, astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have identified a galaxy with an unusual light pattern, which may offer critical [...]

Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 26, 2024It's been a year since NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered the largest-ever asteroid sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Since then, intriguing clues about [...]

London, UK (SPX) Sep 26, 2024Scientists from the University of Warwick have revealed a detailed 'map' of distant planets, highlighting a newly identified area in deep space called the Neptunian [...]

Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 22, 2024 Some of the first data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black [...]

Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2024In a rare and extraordinary discovery, researchers have identified a unique configuration of galaxies that form the most exquisitely aligned gravitational lens found to date. [...]

Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 20, 2024 By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io - the most volcanically active location in the solar system - Cornell astronomers have [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 19, 2024When Jared Bryan talks about his seismology research, it's with a natural finesse. He's a fifth-year PhD student working with MIT Assistant Professor William Frank [...]

Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Sep 19, 2024 Researchers from Monash University's School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment have uncovered evidence suggesting that Earth may have once had a ring system around [...]

Arlington, TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2024 Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have published a study of F-type star systems, in which they explored systems where the planets [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 19, 2024 In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of microscopic primordial black [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 19, 2024 The Einstein Probe X-ray astronomical satellite recently captured and transmitted detailed X-ray images of the moon back to Earth on Tuesday, coinciding with the [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 16, 2024 A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2024 A recent study led by a Kansas State University engineer has provided evidence that supports the 'Tired Light' theory, a century-old concept that [...]

Lemont, IL (SPX) Sep 16, 2024 How are stars born, and how do they die? How do they produce the energy that keeps them burning for billions of years? How [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 15, 2024NASA's Juno mission has detected a new volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io, known for being the most geologically active body in the Solar System. [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2024 NASA scientists have successfully recreated the mysterious spider-shaped formations found on Mars, providing new insights into how these unique geologic features form. The [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 15, 2024 It's been ten years since the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission reached Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In the past decade, the mission's scientific achievements have [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 15, 2024For the first time, astronomers have captured highly detailed images of a star, other than our Sun, that reveal the movement of bubbling gas on [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2024The U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, operated by the NSF's National Solar Observatory (NSO), has successfully mapped the magnetic [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 12, 2024 dwarf-planet-ceres-consus-crater New research by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) challenges previous assumptions about the origins of the dwarf [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2024 The mystery of how supermassive black holes, which can be millions of times more massive than the sun and sit at the heart [...]

Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 11, 2024 NASA's Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 26 that kept the spacecraft on course for the mission's seventh and final planned [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2024 New research published in 'Nature Astronomy' suggests that our galaxy, the Milky Way, could already be interacting with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, offering a [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 11, 2024Many imagine the solar system's edge is marked by Neptune, the furthest known planet. However, astrophysicist Susanne Pfalzner from Forschungszentrum Julich notes, 'Several thousand celestial [...]

Columbus OH (SPX) Sep 11, 2024 In a new study, astronomers report novel evidence regarding the limits of planet formation, finding that after a certain point, planets larger than Earth [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2024 The ChemCam instrument, developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, has fired its laser for the 1 millionth time on Mars. Positioned atop NASA's [...]

A MASSIVE impact billions of years ago may have reoriented Jupiter's largest moon. Naoyuki Hirata at Kobe University, Japan, and his colleagues have studied Ganymede's extensive furrow system – a […]

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first precise measurements of the ambient light that suffuses the universe, called the cosmic optical background. This glow is so dim that it […]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 A deeper understanding of neutron stars and their internal mechanisms could lead to significant advancements in our knowledge of the universe's dynamics and [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 05, 2024 Exoplanets form in protoplanetary disks, a collection of space dust and gas orbiting a star. The leading theory of planetary formation, called core accretion, [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 Geological evidence has long shown that volcanic activity occurred on the Moon, but the duration of this activity has remained uncertain. A recent discovery [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has identified an exoplanet exhibiting peculiar orbital movement, challenging current understandings of planetary system dynamics. [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2024 For centuries, observers have watched the bright poles of Mars change with the seasons. In the last 50 years, scientists have determined that [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 Planet formation has traditionally been described as a 'bottom-up' process, where dust grains gradually clump together over millions of years, forming larger structures [...]

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 An international group of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research, has uncovered [...]

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 05, 2024 Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid struck Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, leading to a significant shift in its axis. A researcher from Kobe [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 Mars, once a planet with abundant water, now presents a mystery regarding the fate of its water resources. While scientists believe some water [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 06, 2024 The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission successfully carried out its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing critical data and views of two distinct [...]

Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 05, 2024 Scientists have traveled to the edges of the solar system, virtually, at least, to capture the most accurate measurements to date of the faint [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 05, 2024 The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion in the universe, according to a recent analysis [...]