Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

13) at the 245th American Astronomical ... to find out, Leiner and her colleagues attained and analyzed fresh Hubble Space Telescope observations of one of the brightest blue lurker stars in ...

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This National Astronomy Week, we celebrate all their fascinating work in space research. Our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA) is a hub for researchers looking into the formation and evolution ...

Before astronomy students at Columbia University can learn about about the sun, moon, and stars, they’ll have to take a refresher on … the “genocide” at Gaza? That’s the message from an undergraduate ...

Laser guide stars (LGS) and adaptive optics (AO) are crucial technologies in modern astronomy, enabling telescopes to correct for atmospheric distortions that blur images of celestial objects.

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Astronomy and astrophysics are the study of objects and phenomena that are found beyond our solar system. This combines theoretical simulations and observation with both terrestrial and space ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest find is for ... with the International Astronomical Union to solicit ...

Our planet is hurtling at some 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h) toward the star Lambda (λ ... other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system are so insignificant that we can consider the ...

Now, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that follow ...