On May 12, 2022, astronomers on the Event Horizon Telescope team released an image of a black hole called Sagittarius...
Our solar system contains eight planets and more than 200 moons. The large majority of those moons have no chance...
Powerful enough to spot a golf ball on the moon, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a network of radio...
Tiny little bullets flood the solar system, each micrometeoroid a potential hazard. New research has found that the James Webb...
When stars like our sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars...
In our sun’s neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been...
Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting,...
NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that...
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the largest telescope ever built by far, has discovered more than 200 pulsars....
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami...
Searching for Dyson spheres, rings or swarms remains a preoccupation of many astronomers. If there are any out there, they...
Discovering that many of the large moons in the outer solar system may host significant subsurface oceans of liquid water...
