For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...

Light emerges from a dusty disk ejected from a waning star's surface just a few hundred years ago in the Egg Nebula. Credit: ESA / NASA / B. Balick (University of Washington) A new Hubble Space ...

Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The work described in this article was enabled in part by support provided by the BC DRI Group and ...

Lurking in the southwestern corner of Aquarius the Water-bearer, globular cluster M72 doesn’t stand out. At magnitude 9.4, it ranks among the dimmest globulars Charles Messier included in his ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

What we know so far: Stars, like all living organisms, age according to predictable physical laws – or so astronomers once thought. Yet scattered throughout the Milky Way's oldest star clusters are ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science's biggest questions—the Hubble tension. The quest to determine how fast ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars ...