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NASA’s Swift Observes Gas-Disturbing Giant Black Holes

Researchers leveraging data from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have identified, for the first time, a signal emanating from two massive black holes as they disrupt a gas cloud...

A Transit of Mercury

The sky will put on a show when Mercury journeys across the Sun. The...

NASA Advances Climate Resilience with Updated Adaptation Plan

In a bid to fortify federal operations against climate change impacts, NASA has released...

The Stunning Spiral: Hubble Captures the Intricate Beauty of Galaxy IC 4633, Hidden Within a Sea of Dust

The subject of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy...

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy Of Technology And Power, 1500-2025 Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan

Fondazione Prada presents an exhibition titled “Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,...

Webb Unveils Dark Side of Pre-stellar Ice Chemistry

f you want to build a habitable planet, ices are a vital ingredient because they are the main source of several key elements —...

Starry Wreath in Pegasus

The James Webb Space Telescope spies the spiral galaxy NGC 7469, located 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, in this image...

NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Snacking on Star

Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close. Located about 250 million light-years from...

Immune surprise: recently evolved alarm molecule drives inflammation

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how inflammation is regulated. They have just discovered that a key immune...

Emission Nebula-Star Cluster Duo from Hubble

Against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars. This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster...

NASA Sets Coverage of Orion’s Historic Moon Mission Return, Splashdown

NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft's return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return to...

Stellar Siblings Host ‘Teenage’ Exoplanets Dicovered by NASA’s TESS

Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting...

IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains

When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way....

One Giant Leap: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Project Apollo With Auction of Historic Vintage Space Photographs

As NASA looks again to the moon 50 years after the final Apollo 17 mission, groundbreaking works from the collection of Victor Martin-Malburet offer...

Encouraging Results at the First Natural History Sale in Paris

Paris – The first sale of Naturalia organised by Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, which took place in Paris on 21 September, achieved a total...

The Enigma Decoded at Bonhams’ Instruments of Science and Technology Sale

London - Enciphering and deciphering technology was developed long before and after the Enigma machine, the cracking of which cleared the path to victory for...

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central...

Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Seen by Hubble to Be Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top

Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew...

Perseid Meteor Shower – Watch It Live

If you missed out on last night's opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower, it not too late. In fact this year the peak...

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