When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4900 appears to show a bright star overlapping the ...
The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid water to facilitate chemical reactions. While single-celled life has existed almost as ...
A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...
Telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope have given astronomers unprecedented access to the cosmos, but even these advanced imaging systems come with ...
Day 20 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a galactic chain. This Hubble image features an interacting galaxy system known as Arp-Madore 2105-332, that lies about 200 million light-years from ...
A simple change in telescope shape could bring the search for alien life closer to home. Instead of the traditional round mirror, a new concept argues for a long, thin rectangular mirror that can more ...
NGC 346, a massive star cluster, with star locations circled in yellow. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA) How planets evolve into ...
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...
The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even in the depths of space, there’s no escape from politics. The $10 billion ...
"The high explosion energy of AT 2023adsv could indicate that the properties of supernova explosions might have been different in the early universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Amazon Prime Day in October is in its final day and this telescope deal on the Celestron Inspire 100AZ brings the price down to $304 — perfect for a better view of comet Lemmon.