For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

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Researchers have admitted to mistakenly identifying Elon Musk's car as a near-Earth asteroid, highlighting the importance accurate space tracking.

In a press conference last week at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Scott Wolk of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory presented his findings on Wolf 359, a red dwarf star ...

"Sgr A*'s flare evolves and changes quickly, in a matter of hours, and not all of these changes can be seen at every wavelength," says astrophysicist Joseph Michail of the Smithsonian Astrophysical ...

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, scientists say Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent The Mauna Loa Observatory in ...

a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, who helped lead the research. "The fact that there is so much dust and gas in Westerlund ...

Now, using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one team has identified ... Published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters in December 2024 and presented on Jan. 15, 2025, at a press conference ...