Astronomers often have more questions than answers about the universe — and the universe, in turn, has asked its own question. Quite literally. Last year, the James Webb Space Telescope fortuitously spotted the unmistakable shape of a question mark across the sky. The uncanny feature was ...
READ MORE +Last month, auroras that may have been the strongest in the past 500 years wowed observers around the world for a full weekend. Now, a space probe has revealed just how chaotic the sun was during this historic light show. Images of the sun's disk by India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the ...
READ MORE +After two decades of work, the camera at the heart of the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory arrived at its home last week. It's now perched on the summit of the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile. This camera is the final major part of the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope, upon ...
READ MORE +A new telescope billed as the world's highest astronomical site is officially open for business. The Japanese University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, or TAO, which was first conceptualized 26 years ago to study the evolution of galaxies and exoplanets, is perched on top of a tall mountain ...
READ MORE +Last November, when NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh, it found the space rock was not one, not two but three rocks huddled together. While scientists were surprised to spot Selam, Dinkinesh's natural satellite, they were shocked to discover ...
READ MORE +The asteroid Apophis, infamous because it's headed to brush past Earth in 2029, most likely isn't something to worry about, a new study finds. This space rock, scientists calculated, will not collide with other space rocks that could worryingly alter its orbit and redirect it toward Earth ...
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