Hubble Captures Galaxy Cluster – NASA Science
Look closely at this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and you’ll see galaxies of various shapes and…
Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II
What you’ll do: Learn how to recognize clumps, the bright spots in galaxies where stars are being formed…
A Strange Black Hole Mystery Has Stumped Physicists Since 1993. Researchers May Finally Have the Answer
In 1993, Canadian physicist Matthew Choptuik demonstrated black holes may emerge spontaneously from critical collapse, during which spacetime…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Nears Launch for Epic Hunt Across the Universe
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could launch in 2026 and dramatically expand humanity’s view of the universe. The mission…
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Finally Find the Milky Way’s Missing Neutron Stars
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could uncover one of the Milky Way’s biggest hidden populations: invisible…
Scientists Find Evidence Earth Is Drifting Through the Ashes of an Exploded Star
Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar…
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…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that…
Earth Is Zipping Through a Giant Interstellar Cloud. Here’s How We Know
Roughly within the last 20 million years, some stars in our neighborhood exploded in fiery supernovas, ejecting massive…