Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: James Webb Space Telescope
What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about…
What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about…
The Universe contains different “flavors” of black holes. While “stellar” mass black holes are 10-50 times the mass of our Sun, supermassive black holes are…
According to new research, an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity might be the key to solving a…
Dark Energy Camera captures a trove of celestial phenomena in one shot. This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy…
While the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a…
Astronomers reveal the first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. It is the first direct visual evidence of a ring-like…
New chemistry ‘forensics’ indicates that the stone named Hypatia from the Egyptian desert could be the first physical evidence found on Earth of a supernova…
Western Sydney University researchers, together with an international team of experts, have discovered a mysterious circular ring near our neighboring galaxy that could be the…
The device hopes to answer the ultimate existential questions. The final piece of an all-new detector has completed the first leg of its journey toward…
Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound more scientifically credible if you use the word multiverse. The…
When stars like our Sun run out of fuel, they contract to form white dwarfs. Such dead stars can sometimes flare back to life in…
Study including University of Chicago researchers analyzes aftermath of 2014 supernova. An international group of astronomers has uncovered new clues about a mysterious stellar explosion…
Team reveals first image of the black hole at our galaxy’s heart. An international team of more than 300 scientists from 80 institutions has created…
White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. Historically, these interstellar remnants have been difficult…
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of…
Today (May 12, 2022), at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the…
Update: Stunning Reveal: First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy Today (May 12, 2022) at 9:00 a.m. EDT…
A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions has discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems….