'Eye of God' nebula looks like a cosmic lava lamp in new James Webb Space Telescope image
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before....
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It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before....
The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation....
Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors....
The first solar eclipse of the year will take place on Feb. 17, 2026....
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
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Hi HN! We're Kamran, Raaid, Laith, and Omeed from Constellation Space. We built an AI system that predicts satellite link failures before they happen ( https://youtu.be/069V9fADAtM ). Between us, we'v...
Winter in Connecticut. Kelly Marsh/Connecticut Post via Getty Images While some states' coldest temperatures were recorded recently, others were documented decades ago. Hawaii remains the only state i...
For the first time in the International Space Station's history, NASA safely returned a crew of four astronauts to Earth ahead of schedule due to medical issues affecting one of the group....
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate...
China’s commercial space sector logged 50 launches last year – more than half of the country’s total – underscoring the growing role of private players alongside the state-led space programme, with Be...
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing their thick atmospheres....
This past week in San Francisco, thousands gathered outside of an aquarium to celebrate one of its residents, an alligator named Claude who died in December....
"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe."...
Here in France, as well as countries including Hungary, Greenland and Germany, some residents have been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the northern lights. These vibrant scenes are the result of t...
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A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...
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The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different....