Astronomers Discover a Sleeping Giant: Ancient Black Hole 6 Billion Times the Sun’s Mass
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster…
A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified
There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains…
After 50 Years, Astronomers Finally Found What the Milky Way’s Black Hole Was Hiding
Astronomers have uncovered long-sought evidence that the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is producing a wind, revealing…
Don’t miss two eclipses and a meteor shower in Summer 2026
According to timeanddate.com, though, if you track sunrise and sunset down to the second, your longest day of…
Arizona astronomers use AI to study meteors
“Modern meteor networks capture a wealth of observational information, and we wanted a framework that could fully take…
Scientists use Einstein’s equations to reveal what came before the Big Bang
Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far…
iPTF14hls: the star that has exploded six times and defies all theories
When astronomers first observed iPTF14hls in September 2014, they identified it as a supernova and expected it to…
Sunday’s summer solstice is the sun’s time to shine in the Northern Hemisphere
This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern…
Massive underground structure discovered beneath the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin
The Moon’s biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath…
Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star
An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…
Compact dusty starbursts at cosmic noon linked to high-energy neutrinos
IceCube Collaboration Evidence for high-energy extraterrestrial neutrinos at the IceCube detector. Science 342, 1242856 (2013). Article Google Scholar …
Giant Nevada Project Could Transform Astronomy
Nevada’s empty expanses are about to get very busy listening to the universe. Caltech has approved the…