NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope set to explore the universe
This weekend, NASA plans to launch its next flagship mission into deep space. The Nancy Grace Roman Space…
Astronomers find an ultra-dense mega-Earth 23 times our planet’s mass but only 2.5 times its size
GJ 523b is 2.55 times Earth’s radius but about 23.5 times its mass, making it unusually dense for…
2-kiloparsec trail of stars could reveal how dark matter shapes galaxies
A thin ribbon of stars around the ultra-diffuse galaxy UGC 9050-Dw1 may be the first globular-cluster stellar stream…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
Astronomers discover new type of cosmic object, ‘black hole star’
Is it a star or a black hole? A recently discovered astronomical object appears to be a bizarre…
New Gaia data is challenging a 50-year-old assumption about how stars and galaxies form
Astronomers found that star clusters do not always form the same balance of small and large stars, challenging…
The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos
To test these new ideas, researchers are exploring the infant universe through simulations. “There’s actually been really remarkable…
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. James Webb Space Telescope data helps explain why
Neptune has a very strange moon system. The farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System has…
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…
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…
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system. On Friday, wildfires in Spain overran…
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…