Astronomy News

Unprecedented spacecraft hack leads to never-before-seen views of the SunSeptember 14, 2023

Mars rocks in the shape of a shark fin

Sharks on Mars? NASA releases ‘fishy’ images from the Red PlanetSeptember 8, 2023

Ripples in the spacetime around a merging binary black-hole system from a numerical relativity simulation

Black holes chirp? Astronomers discover unique sound as these objects mergeSeptember 7, 2023

This image shows the orientation of the magnetic field in the distant 9io9 galaxy, it looks like a blue dot and a blue crescent moon

Galaxy’s ghostly glow marks furthest magnetic field ever detected — 11 billion light-years awaySeptember 6, 2023

Comparison between a conventional galaxy (ESO 325-G004) enveloped in a halo of dark matter, occupying the heaviest plate on the weight scale, and the galaxy NGC 1277 (on the left), in which the study of the mass distribution reveals the absence of dark matter

Cosmic conundrum: First galaxy discovered without dark matter leaves scientists baffledSeptember 3, 2023

Earth and Moon seen by Mars Express.

Is that us?! Photo from space reveals what Earth looks like from MarsSeptember 3, 2023