Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time
To confirm that the observed signal was indeed caused by a moon, the research team also examined other…
UK’s £3 Million Bet Could Help NASA Find Life on Nearby Planets
A conceptual design of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA A £3 million investment could help secure a…
UN warns record strong El Nino will add fuel to a burning planet
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A strengthening El Nino has already broken records for intensity at its early stages,…
Andromeda’s star formation has been slowing down for 500 million years
Andromeda has been forming fewer stars for about 500 million years, with an especially sharp drop recently.Most of…
Solar eclipse won’t be this big again until 2081 | National
Photo by Israel Torres via Pexels A solar eclipse will be visible in the UK on Aug. 12…
Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…
This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
July’s Full Buck Moon shines this week
If you have clear skies over the next few nights, take some time to pause and gaze up…
It’s Becoming Clear Why Black Holes Never Run Out of Fuel
It is believed that nearly every large galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its…
New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
New research reveals massive stars both exploded in tandem
‘A rare opportunity’ The discovery may offer insight into binary systems composed of massive stars. “This system provides…
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…