Here’s a rundown of all the major parts of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launching Aug. 30.
Betelgeuse may be a well-known and often-studied stellar object, but that doesn’t mean astronomers aren’t capable of capturing this doomed star in a completely new light.
“The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them.”
Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar system and for the former planet, too.
Twenty years after Pluto became a dwarf planet, people are still fighting over its status. Experts explain why the debate feels so personal.
On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore.
A fractured “ice tongue” is visible in the imagery.
The earliest example of the Milky Way cannibalising a smaller galaxy for its growth involved a cosmic meal that left a scar at the heart of our galaxy.
The reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet continues to stir up a hornet’s nest of controversy and debate, as Space.com meets one astronomer who believes the decision to have been a mistake.
Taking measurements of the same CME from different vantage points in the solar system revealed the true extent of a solar eruption.