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The Webb Space Telescope returned its first images of Mars. The data comes from the telescope’s infrared instruments and provides scientists with information about Mars’ surface and atmospheric composition. Using the Near-Infrared…

The Mars Perseverance Rover has been probing Mars' 30-mile-wide Jezero crater. In the journal Science Advances, a research team's data reveals that rock layers beneath the crater's floor, observed by the rover's ground-penetrating radar,…

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has selected Microchip Technology to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current…

The red supergiant Betelgeuse is as troublesome as Michael Keaton's rambunctious spirit in the 1988 hit: Beetlejuice. In 2019, Betelgeuse ejected a substantial amount of its surface into space in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 400 billion…

Most astronomical discoveries are based on observations, and the volumes of data drastically increased with the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys. For example, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which uses a wide-field view…

Astronomers announced a compact "one of a kind" system of three stars earlier this year. The star system consists of a binary set of stars (two stars that orbit one another) with a more massive star orbiting the binary. The orbital period…

Researchers have pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time. Using a multidisciplinary approach, including a machine learning algorithm, the research - published today in Nature…

One of the craziest things a supermassive black hole can do is shred a star with its enormous tidal forces. The tidal disruption events are one of the very few ways astronomers know of the existence of supermassive black holes at the…

The bright glow of rapidly orbiting gas has a unique flicker. In a recent paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers from Princeton University and the University of California Santa Barbara used this subtle flickering to…

A team of astronomers from the University of Arizona created a detailed, 3-D image of a dying hypergiant star. They traced the distribution, directions, and velocities of various molecules surrounding a red hypergiant star known as VY Canis…