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...
In our sun’s neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been...
Searching for Dyson spheres, rings or swarms remains a preoccupation of many astronomers. If there are any out there, they...
Get ready for a summer blockbuster. The James Webb Space Telescope will produce “spectacular color images” of the cosmos in...
Three years ago, the first ever image of a black hole stunned the world. A black pit of nothingness enclosed...
Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes—immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which...
Nearby black holes and their stellar companions form an astrophysical rogues’ gallery in this new NASA visualization. Stars born with...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now experiencing all seasons—from hot to cold—as it undergoes the thermal stability test. Meanwhile,...
Combining artificial intelligence with many keen human eyes, astronomers have found 1,701 new asteroid trails in archival data from the...
A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analyzed the mass...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a witness at the scene of a star’s explosive death: a companion star previously...
