Something Revealed Itself by Bending the Light of a Distant Star in 2019—Now Astronomers Are Racing to Find Out What It Was
For just an hour in late 2019, a cosmic mystery revealed itself to astronomers in an unprecedented way:…
Welcome to the Gas Giant Planet Where Clouds Turn to Stone
The gas giant WASP-94A b – credit, artistic interpretation by Hannah Robbins, released by Johns Hopkins University Welcome…
Super Jupiters Expose a Long Standing Space Mystery
One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by…
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies…
Astronomers discover a super-Earth that may have an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing an exoplanet and two red stars. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
The Fastest-Known Star Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole Has Been Spotted—Now It Could Help Test Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
The fastest-moving star, S301, was discovered recently by Stefan Gillessen’s team at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…
The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why
An international team of astrophysicists has found evidence that the universe recycles black holes, merging them to form…
Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
This Alien Planet Has Rock Clouds That Vaporize Before Sunset
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…
The dominance of turbulence over magnetism in the formation of massive star cluster seeds
Beuther, H., Kuiper, R. & Tafalla, M. Star formation from low to high mass: a comparative view. Annu.…
NASA’s Hubble Accidentally Witnesses a Comet Shattering in Space
Hubble accidentally captured a comet in the middle of breaking apart, an event scientists have tried for years…
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…