NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our…
Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
Partners, NASA Ready for June Launch of Swift Boost Mission
NASA is on a mission to lift its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory along with partners Katalyst Space and…
NASA’s TESS Mission Reveals the “Puffiest” Planets Ever Found
Data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so…
Astronomers discover faint dwarf galaxy that seems to exist without dark matter
A faint dwarf galaxy drifting 45 million light-years from Earth may have joined one of astronomy’s strangest clubs.…
NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy
Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a…
Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…
NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS
As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to…
AI Cracks the Secrets of How the Universe’s Heaviest Elements Are Forged
Artist’s impression of a neutron star merger. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. A machine learning-powered simulation is…
Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clusters
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very…
After 50 Years, Astronomers Finally Found What the Milky Way’s Black Hole Was Hiding
Astronomers have uncovered long-sought evidence that the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is producing a wind, revealing…
Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star
An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…