6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (371+ words) Kaguya, named after a moon princess, captured the first-ever HD video and images of the moon. On Sept. 13, 2007, Japan launched the Kaguya spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Formally known as SELENE, which is short for SELenological and ENgineering…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (437+ words) "Like light, gravitational waves can also be deflected, magnified, and split into multiple signals by massive objects." A "forbidden" merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That's according to new research…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (426+ words) "For the first time, we were able to watch two massive stars move around one another while they were still being born." Using the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope, astronomers have watched as two stars come together…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (649+ words) "When you look up at the night sky, most of those stars have planets." But while coronagraphs have been used many times before, the one that just launched toward the stars is unprecedented. "The Roman Space Telescope is carrying the…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (693+ words) "There was a sudden explosion as the satellites disintegrated." A team of researchers just chased a pair of reentering satellites in a private jet to learn about the pollution caused by space debris burning up in Earth's atmosphere. The international…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (302+ words) "Astronomy is not just science or spirit; it's both at the same time." It is nearly impossible to fathom the entirety of a single galaxy — these realms can span hundreds of thousands of light-years, and sometimes are even millions of…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1256+ words) Observing Earth from orbit is an increasingly private affair. We are a planet-based species: With a few notable (astronaut) exceptions, everyone who has ever lived remained glued to our spinning Earth, which now houses 8.3 billion people. That's the gravity of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (174+ words) Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (407+ words) "It gives us new insight into one of the biggest unanswered questions in astrophysics." Scientists are closer than ever before to understanding how stars forge the elements that comprise our planet, bodies and pretty much everything else around us — and…...