Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

A groundbreaking discovery has rocked the field of neutrino astronomy—scientists have detected an ultra-high-energy neutrino ...

Roughly 100 years ago, American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that “spiral nebulae” were actually independent galaxies, located millions of light years away from us. He also figured out that ...

But as the authors examined AC-I using data from the now-collapsed Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou, China ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of ...

NASA spots a mysterious 100-meter hole on Mars that could lead to underground caves — raising hopes of hidden alien life and ...

On April 19, 1975, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) launched Aryabhata—the country’s very first satellite into ...

Skull Hill is a type of "float" rock — one that likely originated elsewhere and was transported to its current location.

Sirius—as that wonderful aid to physical astronomy, the spectroscope, reveals—is shooting through space at the rate of a thousand million miles a year. The star known at 61 Cygni has a ...

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