What a Mess. A Black Hole's Stellar Meal is Brighter and Longer Lasting Than Ever Seen Before
A black hole munching on a star may have caused one of the brightest transients every observed.
Gravitational Waves From Pulsars Could Be Used to Probe the Interior of the Sun
Gravitational waves from known pulsars might be used to probe the interior of the Sun.
China’s New Solar Observatory is Almost Ready for its Trials
There's a new solar observing facility taking shape in China. It lies far up on a mountain near Mangya City…
The Next Generation of Telescopes Will Tell Us About the Weather on Other Worlds
A study shows how next-generation Extremely Large Telescopes are going to let astronomers get a glimpse of what's going on…
Is This a Black Hole or a New Type of Star?
A new model argues that strange, star-like objects might appear similar to black holes.
JWST Sees a Galaxy Cluster Coming Together in the Early Universe
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s science goals is to help cosmologists understand how the first galaxies and galaxy…
New High-Resolution Photos of Deimos From the Hope Mission
The United Arab Emirates Hope orbital mission to Mars sent home new beautiful high-resolution images of the Red Planet's moon…
TESS Reaches Fifth Anniversary of Extraordinary Mission, but its Work is Far from Over
NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission recently reached its fifth anniversary of service to humanity as it continues to…
Japanese Company’s Moon Lander Is Presumed Lost After Going Silent
A lunar lander built and operated by ispace, a Japanese startup, descended to the surface of the moon today after…
JWST Sees Merging Galaxies Releasing the Light of a Trillion Suns
If we want to know what it'll look like in about 4.5 billion years when our galaxy merges with Andromeda,…