A Giant Black Hole Destroyed a Star and Threw the Pieces Into Space
A pair of X-ray telescopes have observed the messy aftermath of a star that came too close to a supermassive…
Hackers are Attacking Observatories
Why would anybody want to hack an observatory? That's the question facing IT professionals at NOIRLab after somebody tried to…
IceCube-Gen2: 8 Cubic Kilometers of Ice, 5 Times the Sensitivity
The IceCube Neutrino Detector is an observatory unlike any other. Using sensors embedded inside a square kilometer chuck of Antarctic…
One of Neptune's Dark Spots Finally Seen From Earth
Using the ESO's VLT, an international team of observers was able to study Neptune's Great Dark Spot with a ground-based…
Neptune's Cloud Cover is Linked to the Solar Cycle
Whenever Neptune reaches its closest point in the sky to Earth, its portrait is taken by the Hubble Space Telescope…
TESS Has Found Thousands of Possible Exoplanets. Which Ones Should JWST Study?
JWST has demonstrated how well it can analyze the atmosphere of exoplanets, revealing carbon dioxide, water vapor, and sulfur compounds.…
Over 100 Million Years Ago, Olympus Mons Had a Massive Landslide
While the surface of Mars looks relatively unchanging now, it wasn’t always so. The tallest mountain in the Solar System…
Dr. Tracy Becker Honored with 2023 Carl Sagan Medal for Science Communication
This year’s prestigious Carl Sagan Medal, also known as the “Sagan Medal” and named after the late astronomer, Dr. Carl…
Watch an Actual Exoplanet Orbit its Star for 17 Years
Searching for exoplanets is incredibly difficult given their literal astronomical distances from Earth, which is why a myriad of methods…
NASA is Helping to Develop a Mach 4 Passenger Jet
NASA has completed a series of studies that evaluated the potential for supersonic air travel between Mach 2 and 4!