Hidden Giant Planet Discovered Around Tiny White Dwarf Star [Video]
The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been found in the form of a disc of gas formed…
Astrophysics
Star-Quakes Recorded by NASA Space Telescope Provide Solution to an Astronomical Mystery
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery….
Solar Wind Measurements on New Horizons Spacecraft Help Predict Location of Termination Shock
Southwest Research Institute built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun. Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the…
What Happens When a Black Hole Eats a Star [Video]
What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory takes us…
Positive Feedback Black Hole Triggers Star Formation a Million Light Years Away
One black hole is influencing the rate of star formation in multiple galaxies and across vast distances. This is a rare example of “positive feedback”…
Surprise Discovery of Black Hole in Our Galaxy That “Should Not Even Exist”
Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes – cosmic bodies formed by the collapse of massive stars and so…
New Theory Explains the Mystery of How Black Holes and Neutron Stars Shine Bright
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….
Astronomers Inch Closer Than Ever to Signal From Cosmic Dawn
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…
Astronomers Discover Vast Magnetic Filaments in a Galaxy’s Halo
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…
C60 Soccer Ball With Extra Proton Probably Most Abundant Form of Carbon in Space
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…
Photographic Evidence Claims Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shrinking, but Its Demise Greatly Exaggerated
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…
NASA to Unveil the Secrets of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies and Properties of Dark Matter
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…
Planets Around a Black Hole? Calculations Show Possibility of Bizarre Worlds of Astonishing Scale
“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…
Flare of Radio Emission From a Binary Star in Our Galaxy Detected by MeerKAT
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…
Astronomers Spot Neutron Star That’s Been Missing for Over 30 Years
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….
Caught in Afterglow of a Dying Star: Most Powerful Light in the Universe
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…
Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered at the Core of One Galaxy
Research team discovers three supermassive black holes at the core of one galaxy due to the simultaneous merging of giant galaxies. An international research team…
Neutrino Produced in a Cosmic Collider Far Away
Link between IceCube neutrino event and distant radio galaxy resolved The neutrino event IceCube 170922A, detected at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole,…