Artist’s conception of a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star being shredded by the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole. Material from the star…
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Project Starshot, an initiative sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation, is intended to be humanity’s first interstellar voyage. Credit: breakthroughinitiatives.org Space travel can be agonizingly slow:…
This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Credit: L. Hustak and J. Olmsted (STScI) The…
This illustration shows what the core of Messier 77 might look like. As other active galactic nuclei, the central region of Messier 77 is powered…
An artist’s conception of the Starshot Lightsail spacecraft during acceleration by a ground-based laser array. Previous conceptions of lightsails have imagined them being passively pushed…
Artist impression of the 14 galaxies detected by ALMA as they appear in the very early, very distant universe. These galaxies are in the process…
Astrophysicists have reconstructed a dwarf galaxy shredded in a collision with the Milky Way, a finding that could aid in the search for dark matter.…
(Click image to see full infographic.) The universe is expanding, and that expansion stretches light traveling through space in a phenomenon known as cosmological redshift.…
This image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A combines some of the first X-ray data collected by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, shown in magenta,…
The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently…
Animation of a spinning neutron star in space. Neutron stars are directly observable, usually as “pulsars” – the lighthouses of the cosmos. Credit: NASA’s Goddard…
Image of a Wolf Rayet star – potentially before collapsing into a black hole. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers are increasingly drawing back the curtains on…
Artist’s conception of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a…
In a case of cosmic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring…
New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on…
This illustration shows what the core of Messier 77 might look like. As other active galactic nuclei, the central region of Messier 77 is powered…
One of the major issues in general relativity that separates it from other descriptions of the universe, like quantum physics, is the existence of singularities.…
Artist’s impression of a rare kind of stellar merger event between two white dwarf stars. Credit: Nicole Reindl A team of German astronomers, led by…
At the very center of the simulation (and our own Universe) is the Milky Way galaxy, and our nearest massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (known…
Astronomers famously snapped the first-ever direct image of a black holeA black hole is a place in space where the pull of gravity is so…