Astronomy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly “edge-on,” or from the side.

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander

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The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface.

The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs

When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies, he bypassed standard protocols and set the stage for future vaccine rollbacks

When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies, he bypassed standard protocols and set the stage for future vaccine rollbacks

New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers

New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers

The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more strongly than men

With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?

Week in images: 02-06 June 2025

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The second big batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites will launch next Friday (June 13) from Florida, if all goes to plan.

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor