Category: Science

It's a window into the early universe. A new snapshot of a busy star cluster from the Hubble Space Telescope proves the legendary observatory’s still got it, even in the golden age of the James Webb Space Telescope. The image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery …

The Webb telescope reveals secrets of Sagittarius C. About 200 light-years from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way lies a region that isn’t as fertile as scientists would think. This star-forming cloud of gas and dust, Sagittarius C, is brimming with all of the …

It's a rare sight. Something about this time of year on Mars is reminiscent of 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. Maybe it’s the ruddiness of the planet that gives off its own natural sepia tone like we see in Victor Fleming’s film adaptation. Maybe it’s the tornadoes, sometimes so …

“It's another kind of desert.” When cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang footed the cost of a SpaceX flight over the North and South Poles, he thought he’d be able to see signs of explorers and research activities below. But from 260 miles above in space, he saw no trace of humanity — …

What story do these bumpy rocks tell? Aliens aren’t terraforming Mars, but one of NASA‘s rovers just found something with a strange texture that might entice a cauliflower lover to do a double-take. Curiosity, a Mini Cooper-sized lab on wheels, was ambling over rugged terrain a few days ago this March …

It's a “surprising discovery.” Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268?0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way. Yet it does something galactic researchers only thought possible in much more massive elliptical galaxies, which form through mergers of galaxies: It …

New study suggests it likely doesn't have air. Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun‘s closest space neighbor, Proxima Centauri. The star, just four light-years away, is known as a red dwarf, or M-type, and is quite different from …

“A rare cosmic phenomenon.” Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon called an “Einstein ring.” It’s not an actual object, but a warped, mind-bending optical illusion. “The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring. …

And Hubble helped. Even at Neptune‘s incredible distance from the sun, astronomers have long suspected it has auroras, though they had never seen them until now. The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its Canadian and European <a href="https://me.mashable.com/space" …

No other instrument can see this. Scientists are still unraveling the mysteries behind our torrid star. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter — which makes a relatively close approach to the sun every six months — has captured an unparalleled view of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles the sun constantly streams into …