Astronomers discover the closest black hole to Earth
Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way.
Its close...
Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo.
The most distant of these...
Scientists discover system’s second earth-size planet
Scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface.
Scientists find matter flung out of our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers have used an intense burst of radio waves originating from a nearby galaxy to inspect the halo of gas cocooning our own Milky Way galaxy.
Scientists discover a pair of hungry black holes
Astronomers have discovered a galactic table for two — a pair of unusually close black holes that are feeding together after their respective galaxies...
Astronomers use little hurricanes to weigh and date planets around young stars
Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation,...
Space weather is an ever-increasing threat to humanity. But it’s not the sun’s fault,...
Space-age technologies have made fundamental changes to the way we live our lives.
Avionics allow us to fly to other continents on almost a moment’s...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope reveals Milky Way-like galaxies in young universe
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching...
Millions of fake universes clarify how black holes grow
Black holes are surrounded by a mysterious, invisible layer—the event horizon—from which nothing can escape, be it matter, light, or information.
The event horizon swallows...
Ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in time, finds NASA study
In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze of light.