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1.2 billion years ago, a 1-km asteroid smashed into Scotland
New research by a team of UK scientists has located the site of the massive impact that took place in…
Messier 87 – the Virgo A Supergiant Galaxy
Located in the Virgo constellation, roughly 53.5 million light years from Earth, is the supergiant galaxy known as Messier 87…
New observations from the Planck mission don’t resolve anomalies like the CMB “cold spot”
A new analysis of Planck mission data has provided no new insights into the anomalies it detected, leaving the door…
Black Hole Simulation Solves a Mystery About Their Accretion Disks
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists have validated an age-old theory about how accretion disks behave.
The Japanese asteroid-hunter had another photo opportunity when it dropped a target marker on asteroid Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft just launched its second target marker to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
A double asteroid came uncomfortably close this weekend. Here’s what astronomers saw
Using the Very Large Telescope, a team of ESO scientists took some stunningly clear images of a double asteroid that…
Is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Vanishing as We Near Opposition 2019?
Jupiter observation season is neigh, and with it, the largest planet in our solar system is as mysterious as ever.
NASA is building up a map of the entire sky seen in X-rays, line by line with its NICER experiment
Using data from the first 22 months of the NICER instruments mission, NASA has constructed a beautiful image of what…
Rovers on Mars should be searching for rocks that look like pasta – they’re almost certainly created by life
According to a new study, future NASA missions to Mars should look for "pasta-like" mineral structures, which are an indication…
Phew! James Webb passes its final thermal vacuum test. Still on track for 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope recently completed vacuum chamber testing, and is good to go for its 2021 launch date!