Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star
Press Release 12 January 2026 Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with…
NASA’s space probe reveals the violent past of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way
An artist’s illustration showing a black hole. (Image source: AlexAntropov86 – Pixabay) Astronomers have discovered the violent past…
Sonic booms expected Sunday morning from SpaceX launch at Vandenberg SFB | Vandenberg Space Force Base
Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties can expect to hear one or more sonic…
Shaken, Not Stirred: NASA’s StarBurst Aces Extreme Temperature Tests
Heated, cooled, shaken, and settled – NASA’s StarBurst instrument is several steps closer to being ready for launch.…
NASA SVS | NASA’s Pandora Satellite to Explore Exoplanets and Stars
The NASA Pandora spacecraft will observe planets as they pass in front of their stars as seen from…
Roman Space Telescope on track for September launch
PHOENIX — NASA expects to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as soon as September, citing the…
Private group unveils plans for large space telescope
PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a…
NASA seeks to accelerate development of Habitable Worlds Observatory
PHOENIX — NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for…
Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope
After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of…
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…
NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time
By Michael Allen For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a…
NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object
A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless,…