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"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
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 ...
A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.
Astronomers have discovered a "jellyfish" galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive "bunny ...
Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries ...
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 ...
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 ...
NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...
The game-changing Vera Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...