Gravitational wave detectors must improve the signal and its meaning
Growing catalogues are turning gravitational waves into a precision science. The next advances depend on controlling noise, calibrating…
NASA’s Hubble Uncovers Case of Missing Oxygen in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just revealed a mystery in our cosmic neighborhood. In a paper published Monday in…
Dead star and planetary bodies: astronomers spot unique disc of debris that foretells Solar System’s future
Press Release 27 October 2026 Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have found…
Astronomers Matched van Gogh’s Starry Night to a Real Sky—and a Weirdly Specific Date
For a surprisingly long time, scientists have debated whether Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night was his fantasy,…
Amendment 80: D.3 AGIGO: Swift, Fermi, and TESS Observatories Second Opportunities in ROSES-25
The Neil Gehrels Observatory, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Observatory, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) General Investigator programs solicit…
Scientists Simulated the Universe – And Discovered the Milky Way May Be One of the Best Places for Life
Galaxy evolution in an EAGLE simulation. Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers…
Astronomers Discover a “Universal” Trigger for Black Hole Jets
Artist’s impression of a black hole surrounded by glowing stellar debris, with material heating up as it spirals…
NASA Hubble Cold Case: A Dead Star May Have Given Birth to a New Planet
This artist’s concept depicts a possible explanation for the unusual chemical abundances NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected in…
Meet Julian Shapiro, the 18-year-old New Yorker who discovered three unusual dwarf galaxies while still in high school, became sole author of an Astrophysical Journal paper and won a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship
The galaxies, now catalogued as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, II and III, share an unusual combination of characteristics.…
This May Be the Strangest Explanation Yet for the Mysterious Particle That Slammed Into Earth in 2023
In 2023, the KM3NeT neutrino detector picked up an impossibly powerful signal—tens of thousands of times more energetic…
Einstein Probe Discovers a Secret Phase of Neutron Star Collisions
Artist’s impression of satellites observing high-energy prompt emission from a binary neutron star merger. SVOM and HXMT detected…
NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class
NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission…