Hubble captures a dramatic light show around a dying star
ⓘ NASA An Image of Hubble in orbit Hubble provided the clearest image yet of the youngest and…
Scientists find a freezing cold “Earth”
From NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope data, an international science team has found a candidate exoplanet that is…
The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
Astronomers Are Closing In on the Kuiper Belt’s Secrets
Out beyond the orbit of Neptune lies an expansive ring of ancient relics, dynamical enigmas, and possibly a…
Scientists show how to narrow the hunt for merging giant black holes
Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that their motion can’t be…
Particle accelerator helps reveal lost 2,000-year-old Greek star map
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first telescope was invented in…
Scientists trace 3,000-light year cosmic jet to first black hole ever imaged
Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its…
NASA finds what possibly happens milliseconds before neutron star collisions
When a neutron star merger occurs, it produces one of the most powerful explosions in the universe —…
Webb’s 255-hour-long observation reveals invisible dark matter in a map area containing nearly 800,000 galaxies
As part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) project, Webb captured an area of the sky located in…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
February Astronomy: You Can See Six of the Seven Other Planets in February Early Evenings—and Prepare for a Total Lunar Eclipse Early on March 3
In the skies of Earth in February, six of the seven other planets—all except Mars—can be seen in…
A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars
Buckley, D. A. H., Meintjes, P. J., Potter, S. B., Marsh, T. R. & Gänsicke, B. T. Polarimetric…