I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a simulation of the Milky Way bloom above us, while the actor Pedro ...

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

In an engaging video, planetary geologist Ralf Jaumann from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) dives into four major scientific theories that aim to explain the Moon’s mysterious origins. Exploring the ...

In a nutshell Scientists identified over 500 planetary nebulae in the Sculptor galaxy, 20 times more than previous surveys, using the MUSE instrument, but the distance estimate they produced was ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial features in stunning color and resolution. By combining over 50 hours ...

Planetary waves are connected to 2021's deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heat wave and Pakistan flooding, and the 2003 killer European heat wave, the study said.

In the 1950s, Earth averaged about one extreme weather-inducing planetary wave event a summer. Now, it is getting about three per summer, according to a study in Monday's Proceedings of the National ...