Rare class of galaxies shows how black holes shut down star birth
Some of the biggest galaxies in the universe stopped making stars billions of years ago, and even today,…
Why not finding stars has astronomers on Cloud-9
This Digitized Sky Survey image shows a patch of space roughly 14 million light-years away. The red lines…
NASA’s IXPE measures a white dwarf star for the first time
A cosmic first has been achieved. For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer…
Do all stars exist in galaxies?
Back to Article List From the January 2026 issue Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies,…
NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star
Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently…
Sport stars call for federal royal commission into antisemitism and Bondi attack
More than 60 Australian sport stars have penned a letter calling for a royal commission into antisemitism and…
NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time
Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a…
Astronomers may have detected a first-of-its-kind superkilonova
The three stages of a theoretical superkilonova are imagined in this artist’s concept. A rapidly spinning massive star’s…
Can a binary companion survive a supernova blast?
Back to Article List From the December 2025 issue When a supernova explodes, it doesn’t destroy its companion…
Hubble images reveal the aftermath of two cosmic collisions
NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic…
NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles
For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas…
Astronomers Caught a Spacetime Whirlpool Around a Black Hole as First Predicted by Einstein. “This is a Real Gift for Physicists”
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the…