Hubble Delivers Beautiful Photo of a Glowing Cosmic Chandelier
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong and delivering unbelievably beautiful deep-space images. The latest Hubble…
NASA discovers the ‘puffiest’ two planets in our universe
A pair of giant planets circling a star more than 1,100 light-years from Earth looks almost too bloated…
223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture
‘Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary…
Astronomers discover faint dwarf galaxy that seems to exist without dark matter
A faint dwarf galaxy drifting 45 million light-years from Earth may have joined one of astronomy’s strangest clubs.…
A Hidden Galaxy Called Shadow Blaster May Explain One of Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries
A conceptual figure of this study. The background diagram represents the history of the Universe stretching from the…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft finds asteroid Donaldjohanson is tumbling through space
Asteroid Donaldjohanson does not move through space with the tidy, steady spin scientists often expect. It tumbles in…
Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…
A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified
There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains…
Earth may not be swallowed by our dying sun after all, study finds
For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into…
AI Cracks the Secrets of How the Universe’s Heaviest Elements Are Forged
Artist’s impression of a neutron star merger. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. A machine learning-powered simulation is…
After 50 Years, Astronomers Finally Found What the Milky Way’s Black Hole Was Hiding
Astronomers have uncovered long-sought evidence that the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is producing a wind, revealing…
New analysis finds signs of life on Mars actually came from Earth
A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test…