The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They’re One of Astronomy’s Biggest Discoveries in Decades
A team from the University of Texas at Austin and its partners is a winner of the 2026…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
NASA’S Webb Telescope Captures Detailed View Of Lion Nebula, Revealing Its Dying Star
A new view of the Lion Nebula has revealed more details about its striking shape and the dying…
science news: In 1986, Voyager 2 discovered 10 moons around Uranus. 39 years later, Webb found a 29th moon only 10 kilometre wide that the spacecraft had missed
In 1986, Voyager 2 discovered 10 moons around Uranus during its January 24 flyby. The spacecraft’s cameras found…
Black hole star? Solar-system-size ‘dot’ from the early universe is our best evidence yet of a brand-new type of cosmic object
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Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…
The James Webb Telescope Is Changing Astronomers’ Understanding of the Ancient Cosmos
To test these new ideas, researchers are exploring the infant universe through simulations. “There’s actually been really remarkable…
Giant Alien World Found Hiding in Plain Sight for 11 Years
Beta Pictoris is located about 60 light-years away toward the constellation of Pictor (the Painter’s Easel) and is…
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. James Webb Space Telescope data helps explain why
Neptune has a very strange moon system. The farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System has…
NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here’s why it’s so cool.
It’s been more than 36 years since NASA sent its Hubble Space Telescope into low-Earth orbit, and nearly…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system. On Friday, wildfires in Spain overran…