Mind-blowing power and speed of black hole jets measured for the first time
For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.…
Alarming study reveals the universe will end much, much sooner than previously estimated
It’s the end of the world as we know it — a lot sooner than we think. A…
Astronomers Found the Closest Thing Yet to the Universe’s First Stars
The first stars were massive, hot, and bright, forming from primordial clumps of hydrogen and helium. They lived…
Pristine star reveals the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe
The spectrum looked almost empty. That was the clue. In the faint light from a red giant star…
Astronomers use “Galactic Archaeology” to uncover the history of a distant galaxy
Galaxies don’t arise overnight; they develop, merge, and change over billions of years. But how does this complex…
Magnetic Fields Mapped in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds
Molecular clouds, which are dense areas of gas and dust, are the birthplace of stars. Gravity pulls on…
Astronomers Create Catalogue of Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanets
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers at Cornell University have identified 45…
Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
Our Sun Was Born in a Hellish Part of the Milky Way. New Research Explains How It Escaped
The Sun has been a powerful source of energy fueling the solar system for billions of years, but…
The Sun Was Formed 10,000 Light-Years Closer to the Milky Way Center. It Escaped in a Massive Migration of Thousands of Solar Twins
A mass migration of stellar twins. Stars similar to our Sun form a mass migration from the center…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
The Milky Way’s center is hiding exotic chemistry, and ALMA just revealed it
Astronomers have just unveiled a breathtaking new view of the very center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.…