Surprise Discovery of Black Hole in Our Galaxy That “Should Not Even Exist”
Update (January 10, 2020): A team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Potsdam discovered that this object may not be a black hole…
Update (January 10, 2020): A team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Potsdam discovered that this object may not be a black hole…
Columbia researchers suggest radiation that lights the densest objects in our universe is powered by the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields….
Some galaxies are closer friends than others. While many live their own separate, solitary lives, others stray a little too close to a near neighbor…
Dust storms are common on Mars. But every decade or so, something unpredictable happens: A series of runaway storms breaks out, covering the entire planet…
Researchers using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope have taken a new and significant step toward detecting a signal from the period in cosmic history…
This image of the “Whale Galaxy” (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of…
It is one of the most common forms of carbon in space: C60, a soccer ball-shaped carbon molecule, but one that has an extra proton…
Flaking of familiar vortex considered ‘very natural state.’ The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with…
In two separate studies using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers will observe dwarf galaxy companions to the Milky Way and…
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where the black planets roll without aim; Where they roll in their horror unheeding, without knowledge or lustre…
Caught in the Act: MeerKAT Telescope Spies Stellar Flare Scientists using the MeerKAT radio telescope have discovered a unique and previously-unseen flare of radio emission…
The leftovers from a spectacular supernova that revolutionized our understanding of how stars end their lives have finally been spotted by astronomers at Cardiff University….
As NASA continues preparations for the summer 2020 Florida launch of its Mars 2020 rover, including the recent completion of testing the spacecraft in Mars-like…
Fifty years ago today, during their second moonwalk, Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean became the first humans to reach out and touch a…
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA’s Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by…
Each second, 1.5 million tons of solar material shoot off of the Sun and out into space, traveling at hundreds of miles per second. Known…
First Detection of Inverse Compton Emission From Dying Gamma-Ray Burst A dying star emits intense flashes of light called a gamma-ray burst. Most days, the…
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’…