Space & Physics

Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars a...

NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk

After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengt...

Quarter of people follow rules even with no downside to...

Why do we follow rules? A series of experiments with more than 14,000 people rev...

There may be a surprising upside to losing coral reefs ...

As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will t...

Best quantum 'transistor' yet could lead to more accura...

Microwaves can control a single quantum bit more precisely than ever before, cre...

A Star Like No Other

An unusual star (circled in white at right) behaving like no other seen before a...

What’s Up: June 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

Planets, Solstice, and the Galaxy Venus and Saturn separate, while Mars hangs ou...

Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Gal...

As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy — then thoug...

Trillion dollars' worth of platinum waiting to be mined...

Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious meta...

The global temperature may be even higher than we thought

Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface ai...

Dogs pollute water with pesticides even weeks after fle...

When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pe...

At this rate, carbon dioxide removal will never matter ...

The carbon dioxide removal industry is struggling to grow at the pace needed to ...

Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around corners

Researchers have developed algorithms that reconstruct a hidden image from the s...

NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary

President Donald Trump walks onstage to speak to a crowd at NASA’s Kennedy Space...

Hubble Spies Paired Pinwheel on Its Own

A single member of a galaxy pair takes centerstage in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

June’s Night Sky Notes: Seasons of the Solar System

by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Here on Earth, we under...

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