Scientists trace 3,000-light year cosmic jet to first black hole ever imaged
Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its…
NASA finds what possibly happens milliseconds before neutron star collisions
When a neutron star merger occurs, it produces one of the most powerful explosions in the universe —…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
The Gaia space telescope: Discovering the great wave
Johannes Sahlmann, Project Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), spoke with Editor Maddie Hall about the Gaia…
Radio telescopes reveal the final years of a rare exploding star
Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae,…
SpaceX Won’t Go Public Until the Planets Literally Align, Sources Say
After more than two decades as a private company, it was beginning to feel as though Elon Musk’s…
University of Southern Queensland astronomer discovers ‘potentially habitable’ planet candidate
Australian astronomers have led an international study that has discovered a candidate for a “potentially habitable” Earth-sized planet…
John Zarnecki: Titan, Saturn, and beyond
Chris Smith first crossed paths with John Zarnecki in Cambridge during the 1990s, when Chris was immersed in…
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Unravels Mysteries of the Dark Universe
The Bullet Cluster is made up of two galaxy clusters that are colliding, one moving through the other,…
Computer models reveal how early black holes grew so quickly after the Big Bang
Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at…
Supermassive black hole grows 13 times faster than cosmic speed limits
Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that is growing at a…
Researchers find Jupiter holds 1.5x more oxygen than the Sun
Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far…