Astrophysics

An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. This black hole represents a recently-discovered quasar powered by a black hole. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, called the Eddington Limit. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss

September 18, 2025

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of…

$Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.$

September 10, 2025

A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James…

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NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

September 8, 2025

Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful…

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A person wearing a black NASA flight suit stands smiling with arms crossed in front of the large blue NASA globe sculpture. The Irish flag patch is visible on their sleeve, and the sky is clear and blue in the background.

August 25, 2025

Titans Space Industries, a commercial space company, selected a new cohort of astronaut candidates this spring – and…

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Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

August 13, 2025

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is…

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$Three panels, each showing a different view of the binary star system Alpha Centauri. The panel at the left is a Digitized Sky Survey image showing a single bright point source at the center of a black image with small stars scattered throughout. The very center of this bright source is outlined with a vertical box, tilted slightly to the left, with two diagonal lines leading to the second panel. The Hubble Space Telescope image shows two white stars with 4 diffraction spikes each against a black background. The top star is labeled Alpha Cen B and the bottom Alpha Cen A. Alpha Cen A is outlined with a white square with two diagonal lines leading to the third panel at the furthest right, which shows a James Webb Space Telescope image of the star. Within a large white circle there is a blurry red-toned field with an orange star icon and central black circle outlined in white marking the location of Alpha Cen A. A bright orange blob at 9 o’clock in relation to the star is labeled “S1” and circled.$

August 7, 2025

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star…

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NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse

July 23, 2025

A century-old hypothesis that Betelgeuse, the 10th brightest star in our night sky, is orbited by a very…

NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth

NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way

NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

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Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin

NASA Scientist Finds Predicted Companion Star to Betelgeuse