Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping scientists understand Earth's rotation changes over thousands of years. They ...
In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...
A new study finds that, with the immense quantity of satellites that hurtle in Earth's orbit today, the first smashup would ...
After less than a year in orbit, the Southwest Research Institute-built PUNCH spacecraft have made major accomplishments, ...
FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.
New analysis suggests that problems with NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter may be more serious than a simple communications glitch.
Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago. Earth may have a moon today because a nearby ...
Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected alignments that challenge models of how galaxies gain their spin. An internation ...
A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a surprising source — ancient Chinese texts. These findings could help us ...
The Cary 7000 Universal Measurement Spectrophotometer (UMS) is an all-encompassing device used for reflection, transmission, and absorption measurements from the near IR range all the way to UV. With ...