Tag: space

This oddly shaped cloud of dusty gas is shaped by the winds and radiation from nearby stars. The post Cosmic “Hand” Reaches for the Stars […]

This week the Moon occults Beta Virginis, then Antares. The last star of the Summer Triangle finally rises before bedtime. On the other side of […]

A new planet candidate discovered in data from NASA’s TESS mission could be an extreme lavaworld, pushed and pulled by the gravity of its own […]

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s flying days may be over, but its influence will be felt far into the future.

The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged an actively star-forming galaxy named UGC 9684.

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star, making just the second planetary system seen around one of these tiny, cool, dim, […]

Astronomers have determined that the Milky Way’s outer halo is filled with “magnetic donuts” that are as wide as 100,000 light-years. The discovery could shed […]

A preview of NASA’s latest issue of “Astrobiology,” their fun ongoing graphic novel series