Artist’s concept of a dark dwarf, a dwarf star containing dark matter. A new study suggests that dark dwarfs in the center of the Milky Way – if they exist
Artist’s concept of a dark dwarf, a dwarf star containing dark matter. A new study suggests that dark dwarfs in the center of the Milky Way – if they exist
View larger. | Is there life on Venus? This is an artist’s concept of molecules of biosignature gases, such as phosphine or ammonia in Venus’ atmosphere. The proposed VERVE mission
View larger. | When New Horizons arrived at Pluto in 2015, it found this large heart-shaped feature on the planet’s surface. Pluto’s “heart” measures approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) across.
That small moving dot is our new interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/ATLAS. A new study said it might be 7 billion years old, or 3 billion years older than our own
Artist’s concept of an overhead view of the Milky Way galaxy. New modeling and simulations show our galaxy should have about 80 to 100 more satellite galaxies than we’ve found
Plumes of ejecta stream from the little asteroid moon Dimorphos, after NASA’s DART mission spacecraft intentionally struck it on September 26, 2022. It was the world’s 1st planetary defense test. Image
An artist’s impression of the UK-led CosmoCube spacecraft. Its mission would be to listen for an ancient whisper from the cosmic Dark Ages on the far side of the moon.
Artist’s illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet close to its red dwarf star. A new study showed that small planets with masses similar to Earth are especially common around red dwarf
Airport radar around the world leak electromagnetic energy into space, signaling our location on Earth up to 200 light-years away. This is Narita International Airport in Japan. Image via Nickika
Astronomers say Earth could be located in a billion-light-year-wide void, illustrated here by the green dot. If so, matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the