See The Moon Meet Two Of Summer’s Brightest Stars: Night Sky This Week
Topline This week is perfect for letting the moon give you a tour of some of the night…
First rocky planet with an atmosphere located in the habitable zone of a star 49 light-years away
A rocky planet 49 light-years from Earth appears to have retained an atmosphere despite orbiting a red dwarf…
Black Hole “ringing” could put Einstein’s theory to its toughest test
A newly merged black hole does not become quiet at once. It vibrates, sheds energy through gravitational waves…
Dark matter may be naturally tuned to a hidden fifth dimension
Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests…
An atmosphere has been detected for the first time around a rocky exoplanet
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing a blue planet and two stars. Astronomers have detected an…
JWST reveals how a supermassive black hole keeps feeding itself
Supermassive black holes can heat the gas around them so fiercely that their own food supply should disappear.…
Measuring the high-energy neutrino sky using the deep-valley neutrino observatory TAMBO
Kotzer, P. (ed.) Proc. 1975 Summer Study on Cosmic Ray Neutrino Interactions in the Ocean Depths and on…
Strange gravitational waves may reveal dark matter near merging black holes
The evidence for dark matter is everywhere and the evidence for dark matter is nothing. Galaxies rotate in…
Most Ambitious Sky Survey Ever Begins with Hungarian Scientists on the Team
High atop a mountain in Chile, under some of the world’s clearest, darkest skies, a new era of…
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a striking image of Centaurus A
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a galaxy. NASA has recently unveiled an image taken by the…
Radio observations reveal once hidden structures around the Orion Nebula
Orion is about as familiar as a patch of sky gets. Visible without a telescope, studied by nearly…
Organic molecules can survive violent supernova explosions – fueling star and planet formation
A supernova remnant is supposed to be a rough neighborhood for a newborn star. Shock waves rip through…