The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
JWST finds water around a dying star near the Milky Way’s central black hole
A giant aging star near the Milky Way’s central black hole is shedding enormous amounts of gas and…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
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…
ALMA Telescope Finds SETI Has Searched 21 Times More Stars Than Anyone Knew
For six decades, SETI researchers have been pointing their radio telescopes at a narrow slice of the electromagnetic…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Study suggests our galaxy underwent a massive cosmic flip
The Milky Way may not have always looked the way we see it today. New research presented at…
How to photograph the stars using your phone
Here are Hayati’s tips for snapping stunning starscapes with a phone, as well as some suggestions that could…
New findings revise the Milky Way-Andromeda collision odds into a cosmic coin toss
The Milky Way and Andromeda have appeared locked on a destructive course for decades. Now, thousands of simulations…
A cosmic gateway near Earth may connect us to other distant worlds
The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never…
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…
Hubble Peers into 13-Billion-Year-Old Globular Cluster
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of NGC 6426, an ancient globular…