Astrophysics

Astrophotographer captures spectacular photo of the Antennae Galaxies merging in the constellation Corvus. This deep-space image reveals NGC 4038 and...

How the solar wind works involves plasma waves that redistribute energy across the solar system. New Solar Orbiter data reveals...

How is life without a sun viable on the moons of rogue planets? New research reveals that tidal heating and...

A Signal from before the stars was detected by LIGO, revealing a gravitational wave from an object lighter than the...

A Galactic wind caught in the act reveals superheated iron gas escaping M82 at 3.2 million km/h. This NASA-JAXA XRISM...

Hubble Space Telescope watches doomed comet 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák as it reverses its rotation due to intense solar outgassing. This rare discovery...

Space archaeology reveals first dynamic history of a giant spiral galaxy, NGC 1365. Astronomers used chemical fingerprints to reconstruct 12...

Astronomers Just Reconstructed the 12-billion-year history of NGC 1365 by reading chemical signatures in gas. This extragalactic archaeology method reveals...

Astronomers missed a space explosion powerful as a billion suns until they detected a radio signal from its orphan afterglow....

Mars was once warm and wet, but the solar wind stripped its atmosphere over billions of years. NASA’s ESCAPADE mission...