Florentine Townhouse Where Galileo Worked on His Radical Theories Is Now Selling for €12.5 Million
Attention stargazers: A 15th-century townhouse in Florence, Italy, with a tower used by Galileo Galilei himself is now…
Astronomers May Have Found Remnants of a Lost Galaxy Named “Loki” Hidden in the Milky Way
Some of the oldest stars near Earth may not belong to the Milky Way as astronomers once assumed.…
Asteroid named for Pope Leo XIII highlights Vatican’s longstanding support of science: ‘Faith and science go together’
Pope Leo XIV looks through the main telescope of the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, alongside U.S.…
How and when to see it in New Zealand night skies
Rare comet C/2025 R3: How and when to see it in New Zealand night skies ZB Choose a…
The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast and Scientists Can’t Explain Why
Artist’s interpretation of the cosmic distance ladder — a succession of overlapping methods used to measure distances across…
Mars has air, but almost none of it can keep you alive
For all the drama around getting to Mars, the harder question starts after landing. A person can step…
Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Unexpected Ice Clouds on a Jupiter-Like World
Artist’s impression of the planet Epsilon Indi Ab, with water clouds atop its ammonia-dominated atmosphere. Credit: E. C.…
Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe
For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…
Aquila Booster turns a weak pulsar into a powerhouse of PeV particles
High above Earth, in the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau, a giant observatory has caught the universe…
Monster Storms on Jupiter Unleash Lightning Beyond Anything on Earth
Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have uncovered evidence that lightning on Jupiter can be vastly more…
The wide-brimmed Sombrero galaxy is revealed in all its splendor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Sombrero galaxy and its glowing halo of stars have never looked this…
Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS as a probe of formation conditions in another planetary system
van Dishoeck, E. F., Herbst, E. & Neufeld, D. A. Interstellar water chemistry: from laboratory to observations. Chem.…