Fastest star in the Milky Way found zipping around black hole
NEW YORK — A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole…
NASA built the Roman Space Telescope to study dark matter, but it can also help protect Earth from killer asteroids
NASA is about to launch a telescope built to unlock some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, and it…
JWST captures stunning images of one of the lightest known exoplanets
Astronomers discovered Beta Pictoris d, a gas giant about 2.4 times Jupiter’s mass, after spotting it in VLT…
NASA telescope captures ‘wandering’ black hole devour star
NASA telescope captures ‘wandering’ black hole devour star A NASA telescope caught a black hole red-handed in the…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will hit the Moon in the coming days
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the Moon. In the coming days, the upper stage of a…
7 Stargazing Accessories You Need This Summer — And When To Use Them
The Sky View XL Stargazing Tent features an ultra-fine mesh roof. Eric_Weiland/Sky View (used with permission) Summer is…
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Photographs Van Gogh-Esque ‘Starry Night’
The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) pointed its 570-megapixel CCD image sensor, housed inside the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter…
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…
This exoplanet, located about 25 light-years from Earth, could be habitable
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An artist’s illustration showing an exoplanet and a star. Astronomers have recently conducted new…
NASA’s Soon-to-Launch Telescope Is Expected to Unveil Distant Worlds, ‘Millions’ of Stars’ and ‘Billions of Galaxies’
NEED TO KNOW NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…