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Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer & Director: James ...
NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...
Astronomers have discovered a "jellyfish" galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive "bunny ...
A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...
Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...
Sometimes even scientists get lucky. Yale University astronomer Imad Pasha was scanning some ground-based images when he stumbled across a galaxy boasting several rings. Because the object's name, ...
While awaiting a new nominee, “Nasa will continue to have unempowered leadership, not have a seat at the table for its own ...
Uranus’ moons are darker on their leading sides due to space dust, not radiation damage. Titania and Oberon show cosmic “bug splatter,” changing how we understand this tilted world’s mysterious ...
When the Hubble Ultra Deep Field was released in 2004, it was the deepest look into the universe yet. Featuring 10,000 galaxies, it was a momentous observation, pushing the envelo ...
Their incredible interactive map, dubbed COSMOS-Web, lets you scroll through almost 800,000 galaxies and peer back as far as 13.5 billion years. That means looking back through 98 per cent of cosmic ...