A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over one million objects, about half of which are new to astronomers.
Two stunning images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show layers of gas and dust as they eject, swirl, and interact between two nebulas known as NGC 6302 and NGC 7027.
The Red Planet’s surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be the first that includes gathering Mars samples for future return to Earth.
Proposed 100km circular tunnel would be four times as big and six times as powerful as LHC
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have detected a hard X-ray burst, a long-lived outburst and a number of strong and short radio pulses from an infant neutron star with a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth. Named Swift J1818.0-1607, the object emitted X-rays about 16,000 years ago, when it was about 240 years old.
It’s hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected
Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a transiting Earth-sized planet in a close-in orbit around the red dwarf EPIC 249631677.
A team of scientists successfully used a 3D bioprinter to generate completely functional human skin.
A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica’s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find – the second-largest egg on record and one that may have belonged to a huge marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs.
