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'Foundation' space advisor on keeping Asimov's fictional galaxy realistic (exclusive)

Veteran NASA astrobiologist and Hollywood space expert Kevin Hand discusses working on Apple TV+'s sci-fi epic. Comments (0). a woman stares at a hologram of a galaxy floating in front of her. (Image credit: Apple TV+).

Hubble images a museum of galaxies, and some are gravitationally warped (photo)

A crowd of oval-shaped elliptical galaxies gather around the largest in the center. The massive cluster Abell 3322 is a cosmic leviathan that is highly luminous at X-ray wavelengths ...

A nearby supernova could reveal the secret lives of ghostly neutrinos. Here's how.

Detecting neutrino interactions would open the door to strange new physics beyond the Standard Model. Comments (0). a huge exploding mass of light. An artist's impression of a supernova, which can produce a huge amount of neutrinos.

SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at launch pad ahead of Crew-7 liftoff (photos)

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule Endurance has made it to the launch pad ahead of next week's planned astronaut liftoff. Endurance just arrived at Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, SpaceX announced via X (formerly Twitter) on ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 snaps close-up photos of moon ahead of landing try (video)

That X post features a 31-second video, which stitches together a number of images captured yesterday by Chandrayaan-3's landing module. Most of those photos show the lunar surface; ISRO labels a few of the many craters passing underneath the probe, ...

The Sky This Week from August 18 to 25: The Moon visits the Scorpion

Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) is making its closest approach to Earth today, now just 3 light-minutes away. That translates to a distance of about 33.5 million miles (54 million kilometers), rendering the comet a relatively bright 10th magnitude, a ready target ...

Bright cluster packed with stars shines in gorgeous new infrared image

A dense grouping of stars shines brightly in a new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory. Comments (0). A massive glob of stars. The globular cluster NGC 6723 is located about 28,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

Russia and India are landing on the moon next week. Here's what you need to know

NPR

NPR

Russia and India are just days away from attempting to land robotic missions near the south pole of the moon. Russia's Luna-25 mission is currently scheduled to attempt its landing on August 21, while India will try to land its Chandrayaan-3 probe on ...

Surf's up! Waves on heartbeat star are as tall as 3 suns

EarthSky

EarthSky

Surf's up! Surfing on the ocean is fun, but would you like to try it on … a star? On August 10, 2023, researchers announced that a huge heartbeat star has "tidal waves" on its surface as tall as three suns on top of each other.

Have astronomers finally found a meteorite from outside the solar system?

After an expedition that spent about 10 days scouring the ocean floor off Papua New Guinea with a magnetic sled, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb says he has collected more than 700 metallic spherules that are now undergoing detailed ...