Astronomy

This composite image made from six frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven aboard, in silhouette as it transits the…

Astronomer finds exoplanet 35 light-years from Earth which has a surface temperature hot enough to bake cookies on at 320 degrees FahrenheitResearchers have directly imaged an exoplanet to 35 light-years away, the closest…

Rocket Lab is back in business.The company's Electron rocket launched a small satellite for the U.S. military early this morning (July 29), acing its first mission since suffering a failure in mid-May.The two-stage Electron rose off a…

Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) just wants to live a normal life. A new teaser trailer for the upcoming MCU film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, however, suggests that the opposite of normalcy is in his future. The one-minute…

Two gravitational wave signals from an entirely new class of cosmic collisions have been discovered by researchers working on the Advanced <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink"…

New telescope images may provide the first view of moons forming outside the solar system. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile glimpsed a dusty disk of potentially moon-forming material around a baby…

UNM Assistant Professor Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine hopes to take cosmology to a new level Cosmology is the study of the universe—how and when it began, how it moves and how fast, and how its forces interact with each other. It is the…

It’s certainly the oldest, and the grandest, form of visual entertainment you can see from our planet: the night sky. The clockwork motions of the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars come together in an eternal…

Growing up in a Quaker household, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was raised to believe that she had as much right to an education as anyone else. But as a girl in the 1940s in Northern Ireland, her enthusiasm for the sciences was met with…

Fresh off his trip to space, Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2bn in Nasa costs if the US space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the moon.Nasa in April…