Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5 million...
Saturn surpasses Jupiter after the discovery of 20 new moons and you can help...
Move over Jupiter; Saturn is the new moon king.
A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This...
Extreme solar storms may be more frequent than previously thought
Researchers propose in a new study why an extreme solar storm in 1859 was so damaging to Earth’s magnetic field.
They compared the storm with...
Scientists find how two suns collect matter in a binary system
Most stars in the universe come in the form of pairs – binaries – or even multiple star systems.
Now, the formation of such a...
Scientists reveal the violent history of the big galaxy next door
The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years.
So knowing what kind of a monster our galaxy...
NASA’s Spitzer detects a starry region bursting with bubbles
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and...
How close an exoplanet can be to its host star and remain habitable
Earth-like exoplanets with dry tropical regions can remain habitable at a closer distance to their host star than previously thought, a new study suggests.
Because...
A special bond: supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
Some relationships are written in the stars.
That's definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from...
Scientists discover most distant galaxy protocluster
Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection of 12 galaxies which existed about 13.0 billion...
Get ready for more strange, icy interstellar objects
Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way...