Artist’s impression of the Euclid mission in space. Euclid is designed to look far and wide to answer some of the most fundamental questions about…
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Scientists have discovered a unique binary system 1,400 light years away that consists of a hot Jupiter-like object orbiting a white dwarf, offering unparalleled insights…
Harvard astronomers suggest the Milky Way’s warped shape is due to an irregular dark matter halo. This supports theories of a past galactic collision and…
Researchers have discovered that the star cluster IRS13 near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in our galaxy is much younger than anticipated. This challenges…
When black holes collide, they produce gravitational waves detectable on Earth. Although theorized by Einstein in 1916, they were not directly observed until 2015. Modern…
Image of chorus wave generation on Mercury. Credit: Image of Mercury: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Mercury’s exploration by the Mio…
Image shows a visualization of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away…
Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds – and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope…
The Niels Bohr Institute proposes using kilonovae (explosions from merging neutron stars) to address discrepancies in measuring the Universe’s expansion rate. Initial results are promising,…
Through their study of radiation produced by supermassive black holes in quasars, scientists found that spectral energy distribution is not influenced by a quasar’s intrinsic…
An artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion…
Using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, scientists have detected exceptionally high-energy gamma rays from the Vela pulsar, challenging established theories on pulsed gamma rays from…
Schematic representation of the tilted accretion disk model. The black hole spin axis is assumed to be straight up and down in this illustration. The…
On September 27, 2023, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its 17th close approach to the Sun, breaking its own record by coming within 4.51 million…
A now iconic collage showing 22 individual well-known PNe, artistically arranged in a spiral pattern by order of approximate physical size. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA,…
Schematic representation of the tilted accretion disk model. The black hole spin axis is assumed to be straight up and down in this illustration. The…
In the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope gathered data on the closest planet to its star, TRAPPIST-1 b. The study…
In the year prior to going supernova the red supergiant star now known as SN 2023ixf shed an unexpected amount of mass equivalent to the…
Using new simulation technology, scientists predict the existence of massive merging black holes in Milky Way-like galaxies, challenging established theories. Above is a 31.5 solar-mass…