astronomy

It’s big. It’s beautiful. It looks a bit like a sparkly, starry, slightly smooshed Eye of Sauron. It’s the galaxy NGC 4632, and new radio telescope images suggest that it sports a rare “polar ring” — a halo of mostly hydrogen gas tilted…
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A lunar rover slid down a ramp from the lander of India’s spacecraft within hours of its historic touch-down near the moon’s south pole, Indian space officials said Thursday, as the country celebrated its new scientific accomplishment.…
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UAE astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi, the first Arab astronaut deployed on a long-term space mission, is scheduled to return to Earth on September 1 after spending six months aboard the International Space Station. Al-Neyadi, together with…
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Russia launched its first probe to the Moon in almost 50 years on Friday, a mission designed to give fresh impetus to its space sector, which has been struggling for years and become isolated by the conflict in Ukraine. The launch of the…
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NASA’s distant Voyager 2 probe has sent a “heartbeat” signal to Earth after mission control mistakenly cut contact, the US space agency said Tuesday. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and serve as a beacon of humanity to the…
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Rings of dust encircle the young star in stunning new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The photos offer a clearer view of the star system — already famous for previous images of a purported, now widely disputed, planet. Features…
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A spacecraft around Mars has sent back the most detailed photos yet of the red planet’s little moon. The UAE’s Amal spacecraft flew within 100 km of Deimos last month and the close-up shots were released on Monday. Amal — Arabic for…
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Bubbles of radiation billowing from the galactic center may have started as a stream of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, new observations suggest. An excess of positrons zipping past Earth suggests that the bubbles…
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The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry — or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a “fuzzy orange donut.”…
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The hellscape of Venus is riddled with even more volcanoes than scientists thought. Using radar images taken by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s, researchers cataloged about 85,000 volcanoes strewn across the Venusian surface.…
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