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…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may come from a solar system much older than our own
Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from beyond the Solar System carrying a chemical story unlike anything astronomers had measured before.…
New independent measurements of universe expansion rate deepen cosmic mystery : Kauai Now
A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes — including W. M. Keck Observatory…
Mission Impossible? Asteroid the Size of a House Poses New Challenge for Hayabusa2
An artist’s impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26.…
Astronomers Capture Most Detailed Thousand-Color Image of a Galaxy
This image shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s…
Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near…