Would We Know if a Supernova Was About to Hit the Earth?

We know that regular supernovae pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term.…

Astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village celebrates her return to Earth

Residents of Sunita William’s ancestral village and her Indian relatives celebrate her safe landing. She and…

Dark energy is not what we thought – and that may transform the cosmos

Star trails over the Mayall Telescope in Arizona, which houses the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Luke…

Astronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought

An international team of astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark…

Astronomers Used Meteorites to Create a Geological Map of the Main Asteroid Belt

More than one million asteroids larger than 1 km exist in the main asteroid belt (MAB)…

New data hints dark energy in the universe is evolving

These 2 “fans” are areas of the universe that DESI has observed. Earth would be at…

Webb Directly Observers Giant Planets, Sensing Carbon Dioxide in their Atmospheres

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.…

Astro-Challenge: Following Venus From Dusk Til Dawn

With luck and clear skies, you can spot Venus crossing between the Earth and the Sun…

Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality?

Getty images/Shutterstock String theory is the best candidate we have for a theory of everything. Bend…

New Euclid images reveal hidden gravitational lenses

Just look at all these gravitational lenses that Euclid captured in its first observations of the…