NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted 300 mysterious objects that may be some of the…
Black holes may be the source of dark energy
For decades, scientists have puzzled over dark energy, the mysterious force that makes up nearly 70% of the…
X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is…
This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object
At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found…
If nothing escapes a black hole, could one really swallow the entire universe?
In reality, a black hole’s gravitational influence is limited. Like any other massive object, its pull weakens with…
ESA’s Strategy 2040: A dream for Europe
Heriberto Saldivar, Head of Strategy at ESA, introduces the European Space Agency’s Strategy 2040 and explains how it…
This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered
Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion…
Dancing dwarf galaxies could predict the Milky Way’s future
A study from the University of Queensland has tracked dwarf galaxies to understand if the evolution of the…
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…
Hubble Captures a Tarantula – NASA Science
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called…
The Trillion-Dollar Quest To Test Einstein
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration created a single image (top frame) of the supermassive black hole at…
Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole
Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to…