Event Horizon Telescope captures magnetic turbulence flickering at the edge of black hole M87*
For a few brief nights each year, you get a rare chance to watch a monster blink. The…
Astronomers observe a massive star vanish and turn into a black hole
In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark.…
Dark matter may consist of particles with different masses
Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot…
The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice
Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a…
Astronomers find clearest evidence yet of a dark matter subhalo near the Sun
Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden…
NASA spots colossal eruptions shaking Io — Jupiter’s most volcanic moon
NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On…
Giant dark matter ‘sheet’ may shape galactic motion in the Milky Way
On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they…
Black hole ‘Jetty McJetface’ keeps brightening years after it shredded a star
A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a…
Record-breaking neutrino points to exploding primordial black hole
A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle…
Largest sulfur-bearing molecule ever found in space links interstellar chemistry to life
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de AstrobiologÃa, part of…
Lunar asteroid strike in 2032 could trigger moonquakes and meteor storms on Earth
Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking…