Hubble Space Telescope Is Back Online – Partially
The Hubble Space Telescope has been in ‘safe mode’ since October 23, with all of the science instruments offline and unavailable for observations. However, engineers…
The Hubble Space Telescope has been in ‘safe mode’ since October 23, with all of the science instruments offline and unavailable for observations. However, engineers…
A team of University of Arizona-led researchers thinks that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a miniature moon. A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be…
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how…
An international team of astronomers has published the most sensitive images of the Universe ever taken at low radio frequencies, using the International Low Frequency…
How common is our Solar System? Less common than we might think. A significant fraction of planetary systems around Sun-like stars have had a very…
A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected. The discoveries…
An international team of astronomers led by scientists from Leiden University has for the first time characterized a dust disk surrounding a young super-Jupiter, which…
Cleopatra’s Eye, or NGC 1535, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Eridanus. This nebula has an unusual structure that is similar to the better-known…
NRAO project ranked as important new initiative. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report…
With the growing catalog of binary black hole mergers, researchers can study the overall spin properties of these systems to uncover how they formed and…
The Hubble team successfully recovered the Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument on November 7. The instrument has started taking science observations once again. Hubble’s other…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Mrk 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the…
The Lynx X-Ray Observatory, conceived at the Center for Astrophysics, is included in a new series of powerful telescopes that have been recommended as a…
After its arrival at Pariacabo harbor in French Guiana on October 12, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope was transported to Europe’s Spaceport and unboxed…
The Science Aluminum-26 has a long-lived quantum state that is difficult to study in a controlled, laboratory setting. A quantum state is a description of…
Over the past 6 years, gravitational wave observatories have been detecting black hole mergers, verifying a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity. But…
What are Lagrange points? They are places around a planet’s orbit where the gravitational pull of the planet and the Sun and the motion of…
Further confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is located 55 million light-years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation….