There is no evidence to support the idea that this interstellar object is anything but a comet, but let's double-check.

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Supernovae remnants are visible in the top left of this 1999 image ...

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

The ASTERIA cubesat prior to its 2017 launch. While the spacecraft stopped communicating with controllers in December 2019, it had already proven that cubesats can demonstrate the necessary pointing ...

Time is relative, but some of us still don't have enough of it to fully take in the most salient aspects of such topics as dark matter, exoplanets, the Big Bang, and why so many objects in outer space ...

Yet, even in standby mode, NICER’s scientific legacy continues to expand. Mounted on the starboard truss of the ISS, NICER has been one of NASA’s most productive astrophysics instruments in ...

Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) is one of four concepts for a flagship-class mission currently being studied for potential inclusion in the 2020 astrophysics decadal survey. Credit: NASA ...