The spiral galaxy NGC 3521 looms serenely in this image, captured with two telescopes over a total exposure time of 19 hours. The image was taken from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.
Researchers at the University of Maryland are trying to get to the bottom of our farts.
“There it is. There is the thing that everybody’s been looking for for 50 years.”
The dust-filled region likely operated over a span of two million years, birthing plenty of space rocks.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.
A lunar crash may have destroyed Neptune's original set of moons, leaving one oddball behind.
The prospects of tall, vapory plumes of water gracing Europa's surface caused a huge splash in astronomy—but the very researchers behind this claim now aren't so sure.
