NASA Spots Bizarre Formations on the Surface of Mars
An odd Martian landscape may be an icy place. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Mars landscapes have a different kind…
Mind-Blowing Milky Way Portrait Captures More Than 3 Billion Stars
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
Most Detailed Radio Image of Milky Way Yet Reveals Supernova Ghosts
A combined image from Askap and Parkes shows bubbly looking supernova remnants that hadn’t been spotted before. R. Kothes (NRC) and the Pegasus team Our Milky Way galaxy contains lots…
Light Pollution Is Making Stars Disappear From the Night Sky
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…
Astronomers Detect Signal From Extraordinarily Distant Galaxy
One of the dishes of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune in Maharashtra, India. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Scientists have managed to do something we’d previously thought impossible…
See a Mind-Blowing Portrait of Over 3 Billion Stars in Our Galaxy
A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of celestial objects. DECaPS2/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)…
Inside NASA’s Plan to One-Up the James Webb Space Telescope
This is NASA’s preliminary design of the Luvoir Telescope. The agency’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory could possibly look like a scaled-down version of this. NASA Just over a year ago,…
Scientists Find Rare 17-Pound Meteorite, an Unusually Heavy Space Rock
This hefty meteorite found in Antarctica weighs in at nearly 17 pounds (7.7 kilograms). Maria Valdes Antarctica is a wonderland for meteorite hunters. Dark rocks stand out against the pale,…
Surprise magma chamber found under Mediterranean Sea volcano near popular tourist destination
A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece. A group of international researchers used a…
Light Pollution Is Making Stars Disappear at an Alarming Rate
The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out of 10 Americans, and nearly a third of all humans,…