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…
An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined
It’s well known that a solar storm, depending on its level of intensity, can affect the functioning of…
Hubble finds four hidden stars just 65 light-years from Earth that astronomers could never see before |
Astronomers have directly detected four previously hidden white dwarfs orbiting nearby red dwarf stars, solving a long-standing observational…
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…
Kilometre-scale Jovian moon characterized for a potential JUICE flyby
Minor Planet Center. Natural Satellites Ephemeris Service (IAU Minor Planet Center, accessed 28 May 2026); https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NatSats/NaturalSatellites.html Sheppard, S.…
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…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
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…
Scientists recreated a tiny piece of the early universe inside a glass tube to study how life’s building blocks formed |
Long before Earth existed, before the Sun had fully formed, clouds of gas and microscopic dust drifted through…
Hidden planet finally revealed after years of cosmic hide-and-seek
The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the center of the James Webb Space…
NASA study reveals longtime near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet
Asteroid 2026 JH2 was recently discovered by scientists and it’s making an extremely close approach to Earth on…
FCC approves launch of satellite designed to reflect sunlight back to Earth
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a satellite launch on Thursday to test a reflector designed to…