This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
Kilometre-scale Jovian moon characterized for a potential JUICE flyby
Minor Planet Center. Natural Satellites Ephemeris Service (IAU Minor Planet Center, accessed 28 May 2026); https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NatSats/NaturalSatellites.html Sheppard, S.…
Hubble and Webb uncover Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole after 23 years of observations
For decades, Omega Centauri has presented astronomers with a paradox. The Milky Way’s largest globular cluster contains roughly…
Scientists recreated a tiny piece of the early universe inside a glass tube to study how life’s building blocks formed |
Long before Earth existed, before the Sun had fully formed, clouds of gas and microscopic dust drifted through…
Scientists find evidence of a rare double supernova in the Jellyfish Nebula
Astronomers found evidence that the Jellyfish Nebula, or IC 443, and the fainter remnant G189.6+3.3 may have formed…
The Oh-My-God particle still defies explanation
On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground…
The Sun contains 55% more silver than astronomers previously thought
Silver makes up only a minute fraction of the Sun, but its abundance carries clues about events that…
Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies | MIT News
Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe’s ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled…
Expert: Moon temperatures swing from 127 degrees Celsius to minus 173
This image, taken by the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan2 Orbiter and provided by Marty McGuire, shows the…
Researchers Used Two Telescopes to Discover a Planet Hidden In Plain Sight
‘This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows Beta Pictoris d, a new planet found orbiting…