Unprecedented Ground-Based Discovery of Unusual Planetary System, WASP-148
Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from…
Astronomy
Unprecedented Astronomy: Atmosphere of the Red Supergiant Star Antares Revealed by Radio Telescopes
An international team of astronomers has created the most detailed map yet of the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares. The unprecedented sensitivity and…
Stunning Celestial Fireworks Celebrate Birth of Colossal Star Cluster
Astronomers created a stunning new image showing stellar fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17. Most stars in the universe, including our Sun, were born in massive…
Scientific Red Flag Spotted in Milky Way’s Dark, Dusty Center – Oddity Moving in the Direction of Earth
Scientific ‘Red Flag’ Reveals New Clues About Our Galaxy Figuring out how much energy permeates the center of the Milky Way — a discovery reported…
The Next Full Moon Is the Buck Moon – Here’s Everything You Need to Know
The next full Moon is called the Buck Moon, Thunder Moon, Hay Moon, Mead Moon, Rose Moon, Guru Moon, and Dharma Day. There also will…
NASA Scientists Believe Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Sustain Life
A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter’s moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition,…
TESS Mission Discovers “Really Unusual” Exoplanet That May Be the Remnant Core of a Giant Planet
Neptune-sized planet may be remnant core of a much larger planet. The “ice giant” planets Neptune and Uranus are much less dense than rocky, terrestrial…
World’s Largest Telescope Detects Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen Emission for the First Time
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world. Extragalactic neutral hydrogen detection is one of…
First Exposed Planetary Core Discovered – An Extremely Unusual Planet in the So-Called “Neptune Desert”
The newly discovered exoplanet TOI 849 b offers the unique opportunity to peer inside the interior of a planet and learn about its composition. It…
Specialized Telescope Proves a Binary Star Is a Very High-Energy Cosmic Particle Accelerator
Evidence of very high-energy gamma radiation from Eta Carinae. With a specialized telescope in Namibia, a DESY-led team of researchers has proven a certain type…
Hungry Black Hole Among the Most Massive in the Universe – 34 Billion Times the Mass of Our Sun
We now know just how massive the fastest-growing black hole in the Universe actually is, as well as how much it eats, thanks to new…
NASA’s TESS Investigates Strange Ultrahot World – “The Weirdness Factor Is High With KELT-9 b”
Measurements from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of…
Extremely Warped Spacetime: To Find Giant Black Holes, Start With Jupiter
The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when we transitioned from using the naked eye to…
A Cosmic Mystery: Disappearance of a Massive Star Surprises Astronomers
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in a dwarf galaxy. Scientists think…
International “RedDots” Team Has Detected a System of Super-Earth Planets Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf Star
An international team of researchers has found multiple planet systems orbiting red dwarf star Gliese 887. The international “RedDots” team – joined by Australian astronomers…
Solar Orbiter Ready for Science – Completed Commissioning Despite COVID-19 Setbacks
ESA’s Solar Orbiter has successfully completed four months of painstaking technical verification, known as commissioning. Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the spacecraft…
Exoplanet the Size of Neptune Discovered by Astronomers – About 32 Light-Years From Earth
An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii, thanks in part to the work of Jonathan Gagné, a…
Birds of a Feather: Hubble Images Magnificent Galaxy With “Flocculent” Spiral Arms
The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is striking because of its delicate, feathery nature. These “flocculent” spiral…