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Topic: Astronomy (page 10)

An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity survives night alone on Mars

Painting depicting the new horizons space probe as it approaches Charon, Pluto's moon. Dated 2015. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How dark is outer space?

Briley Lewis - Massive Science

Meteor hitting earth (Getty Images)

What if an impact crater isn't that?

Asteroid passing earth (Getty Images)

A massive asteroid grazes Earth

This artist’s impression shows how the distant quasar P172+18 and its radio jets may have looked. To date (early 2021), this is the most distant quasar with radio jets ever found and it was studied with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. It is so distant that light from it has travelled for about 13 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was only about 780 million years old. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

The quasar that sees into the past

Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

A new way of searching for alien life

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

This illustration shows NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Listen to a spacecraft land on Mars

A Meteor glowing as it enters the Earth's atmosphere (Getty Images)

Did a comet kill the dinosaurs?

Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

Planetoid hints at new era in astronomy

Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

Is this one of the nearest exoplanets?

This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. (ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org)

These dancing planets are in resonance

Microbe structures on ALH84001 meteorite (Nasa)

When space stories fall victim to hype

Dan Falk - Undark

Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb (Photo illustration by Salon/Olivia Falcigno/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The first alien spacecraft?

Globe Spinning (Getty Images)

Why Earth is spinning faster than before

Spiral galaxy halo (Getty Images)

The stars that are leaving the galaxy

Time, eternity and the universe (Getty Images)

Universe is 13.77 billion years young

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, located in the southern hemisphere constellation of Fornax (the Furnace). GAL-CLUS-022058s is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our universe. The object has been nicknamed by astronomers studying this Einstein ring as the "Molten Ring," which alludes to its appearance and host constellation. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

The “molten ring” that Hubble saw

Spiral galaxy (Getty Images)

Humanity's space travel plans for 2021

The galaxy GN-z11, which scientists think could be the farthest and oldest galaxy every observed, superimposed on an image from the COODS-North survey. (NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz))

The most distant galaxy upends physics

mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

The Star of Bethlehem's comeback?

Eric M. Vanden Eykel - The Conversation

Star of Bethlehem illustration (Getty Images)

A Star of Bethlehem redux?

(Reuters/Doug Murray)

"The great conjunction" of 2020

William Teets - The Conversation

Highway to Milky Way (Juan Maria Coy Vergara/Getty Images)

Space travel via new celestial autobahn?

The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist's illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. ( NASA/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble)

We just met Planet Nine's twin

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