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Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial -- that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans.

Researchers have developed a new method of storing data on an optical disk. It is capable of holding 24 times the data of the most advanced hard disk drives: the equivalent of 20 million digital photos.

The Sun has been very active so far this month, with powerful sympathetic solar flares dazzling scientists and viewers alike and recent X-class flares making many wonder about communications network integrity. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) constantly monitors the Sun and captures the recent powerful solar flares in exquisite detail across multiple wavelengths.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a monumental discovery, finding evidence for a neutron star at the heart of a young supernova remnant.

One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in remote locations with monkeys and apes, living near these animals in their habitats and experiencing their daily lives. As a 21st-century human, I have an immediate impulse to take pictures of these encounters and share them on social media.

This week, NASA Goddard released a new video that highlights the Landsat program's achievements in 2023. A joint mission between NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), satellite imagers have been orbiting Earth since Landsat 1 was launched in July 1972.

Google is working alongside the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to better understand methane emissions and potential mitigations.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) upended beliefs about the fundamental nature of the Universe, delivering evidence that the Universe was not slowing down, as gravity seemingly implied it must be, but expanding. 25 years later, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can help scientists make another breakthrough.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration and scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Germany used an Earth-sized radio telescope array to observe the jet base of an evolving plasma jet outflow from a supermassive black hole at an unprecedented angular resolution.

The spiral galaxy UGC 3912 doesn't look like much of a spiral in a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its unusual and distorted shape is due to a gravitational encounter with a separate galaxy.

Not to be outdone by the James Webb Space Telescope and its beautiful new nebula image, the Hubble Space Telescope delivered a pair of fresh new space photos this week.

The James Webb Space Telescope set its sights on a region of ionized interstellar atomic hydrogen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) this week, delivering one of Webb's most colorful photos yet.

While the James Webb Space Telescope has been busy helping scientists solve some of the greatest mysteries of the early Universe, the powerful telescope has also found that many distant galaxies have flattened oval disk and tube-like shapes, unlike the spiral and elliptical structures that are more typically seen in closer galaxies.

While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered many beautiful images, its primary mission is to probe the early Universe and help humanity solve some of the most significant questions it faces. Webb has delivered on this promise by revealing, for the first time, what is in the local environment of galaxies in the very earliest days of the Universe.

150 million light-years from Earth, a relatively small galaxy, UGC 5189A, was the site of a massive supernova, a super-powerful star explosion.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has performed nearly 60 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the planet's four largest moons. Over the weekend, Juno made its closest flyby to the Jovian moon, Io, and it was the closest any spacecraft has come to the Jovian satellite in more than two decades.

NASA has created an incredible timelapse movie that condenses 14 years of data acquired by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope into six minutes of colorful cosmic rays.

The James Webb Space Telescope has an early Christmas present for space enthusiasts: A stunning new photo of the ice giant Uranus.

Even as telescopes and observatories uncover more details about space, it remains mysterious. One puzzle revolves around the "smallest object that can form in a star-like manner," according to NASA. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have identified a new record holder for that category: a free-floating brown dwarf.

Although the Hubble Space Telescope has had a heck of a run, it cannot last forever. Astronomers have been planning for Hubble's retirement for many years, and a Canadian telescope called CASTOR may be the best candidate to fill the inevitable void in ultraviolet space exploration.

In April, the James Webb Space Telescope kick-started a new era of investigation into Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a prototypical supernova remnant that has been the subject of extensive study by numerous telescopes. Today, researchers shared another view of Cas A that has stunned astronomers.

A striking new Hubble image shows NGC 2210, a marvelous globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The ancient cluster is 11.6 billion years old and a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, meaning that NGC 2210 is gravitationally bound to Earth's galactic home.

Christian Spencer became well-known for his stunning photos of hummingbirds that show rainbows in their wings, it's a specialized technique of shooting the amazing birds, one which Spencer pioneered.

A team comprised of Zaira Rangers, a mammologist from the University of Melbourne, and a professor from Solomon Islands National University have taken the only photos ever of the exceptionally rare Vangunu giant rat.

A prominent United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based astronomer has proposed a fatwa concerning astrophotography, a move that potentially change the way the start of a new lunar month is determined.

Frustrated fishermen in Australia have long been robbed by dolphins -- and now camera technology has shed more light on the situation.

The Hubble Space Telescope continues to amaze with its images of deep space. The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released a pair of new galaxy photos that are a true feast for the eyes.

A new image of Earth may not look like much at first glance, but how it was captured is incredible.

By combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays.