The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...
Nov. 6, 2026 After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two ...
United States Representative Judy Chu at the 53rd Annual Police and Citizens Awards Ceremony [Paul Takizawa/Pasadena Now] Rep. Judy Chu introduced a House resolution Monday, Oct. 5, honoring a 1923 ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image provides a lesson in galactic history. The sparkling collection of stars is named ...
Our cosmic neighbourhood is full of surprises, some you cannot even imagine. In a paper published on Monday in The ...
One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s ...
The Swift Observatory allowed astronomers to study events that happen quickly in the universe, such as stars exploding.
The Swift Observatory allowed astronomers to study events that happen quickly in the universe, such as stars exploding.
Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where ...
Hubble reveals a mystery in nearby dwarf galaxies, where powerful stellar explosions appear to have swept away much of their ...
A Hubble-based census of 37 nearby dwarf galaxies finds they hold on average just 11% of the oxygen their own stars forged, and as little as 4%. Supernova winds ...
Galactic archaeologists are using precise measures and larger sample sizes afforded by new missions to tease apart minute differences between groups of stars, revealing the history of the Milky Way ...