NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, Sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The Milky Way
Like documenting a child’s development in a scrapbook, astronomers use Hubble to capture the appearance of many developing galaxies throughout cosmic time. This is possible because of the mathematical relationship between cosmic distance and time: the deeper Hubble peers
By Neel V. Patel July 20, 1969 marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the first time in history that humans set foot on an extraterrestrial world. But half a century later, Earth’s only natural satellite
Climate predictions show hot and dry days ahead with heat and drought levels expected to rise. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks report for 2024 has listed worsening heatwaves as part of a trio of climate disasters that are
By NSF NOIRLab (U.S. National Science Foundation National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory) About 1300 light-years away, in the constellation Puppis, a ghostly hand appears to be emerging from the interstellar medium and reaching out into the cosmos. This cloudy,
“One of those rare moments that you just can be at one with it with Mother Earth, and with the cosmos.” By Meredith Garofalo First, it was the total solar eclipse at the beginning of April. Then, late last
By Space Telescope Science Insitute An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b. Precise brightness measurements over a broad spectrum of mid-infrared light,
Stellar black holes are formed from the collapse of massive stars and the ones previously identified in the Milky Way are on average about 10 times as massive as the Sun. Even the next most massive stellar black hole
NOIRLab Dark Energy Camera captures remains of a massive star that exploded nearly 11,000 years ago in huge gigapixel image This colorful web of wispy gas filaments is the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding nebula of cosmic debris left
