Most Ambitious Sky Survey Ever Begins with Hungarian Scientists on the Team
High atop a mountain in Chile, under some of the world’s clearest, darkest skies, a new era of…
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a striking image of Centaurus A
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a galaxy. NASA has recently unveiled an image taken by the…
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…
NASA’s Soon-to-Launch Telescope Is Expected to Unveil Distant Worlds, ‘Millions’ of Stars’ and ‘Billions of Galaxies’
NEED TO KNOW NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center…
A supernova remnant may have been discovered in the Milky Way
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the supernova SN 1993J. Thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers…
NASA Moves Roman Space Telescope Launch Up To August 30: A Billion-Galaxy Survey Arrives 8 Months Early
NASA has set August 30, 2026 as the launch date for its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope —…
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
This plot shows currently known exoplanets, with different categories highlighted. Roman will help fill in the bottom-right of…
HWO Target Stars and Systems: Activity and Rotation Catalog (ARC) of Potential Target Stars for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Upper panels: Equatorial rotational velocity (veq) vs. projected rotational velocity (v sin i) for stars in Tiers 1,…
With a mass of about 50 billion times that of the Sun, this black hole is one of the largest ever discovered
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing a black hole in the universe. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
With a power of 10,000 suns, jets emitted by a black hole were measured for the first time
The universe contains many mysterious and powerful objects. This is the case for black holes, which are celestial…
From Gas To Stars Along The Spiral Wave: CO, HCN, And Star Formation Variations Across The Spiral Arms In NGC 4321 And M51
Optical Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of the targets NGC 4321 (top) and M51 (bottom) overlaid with CO,…
A Tiny Camera In a Cereal Box-Sized Space Telescope Is Searching for Habitable Planets
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) built an ultraviolet camera for NASA’s teeny-tiny SPARCS space telescope, which is about…