Astronomy
New Simulation Recreates an Early Time in the Universe That Still Hasn't Been Seen Directly
A new simulation suite created by an international team of scientists shows what the James Webb will be seeing soon!
A New Record! Hubble Detects an Individual Star From a Time When the Universe Was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A star that sounds as if it came from "The Lord of the Rings" now marks one of the Hubble…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter Takes a Ludicrously High Resolution Image of the Sun
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter snaps an amazing image, en route to its first close pass near the Sun.
Astronomers Come up With a New Message to let the Aliens Know we’re Here
An international team of researchers has composed an updated Arecibo Message, known as the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG) Message.
Part of the Milky Way Is Much Older Than Previously Believed
The Milky Way is older than astronomers thought, or part of it is. A newly-published study shows that part of…
Supermassive Black Holes Could Have Formed Directly in the Early Universe
There are a lot of amazing things in our Universe and a black hole is one of the most unknown.…
NASA’s Roman Mission Might Tell Us if the Universe Will Tear Itself Apart in the Future
NASA's Nancy Gracy Roman Space Telescope won't launch until 2027, and it won't start operating until some time after that.…
Asteroid Ryugu Might Actually Be a Dead Comet
In 2014, the Japanese Space Agency JAXA launched the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to visit asteroid Ryugu. It arrived at the…
Astronomers See the Wreckage Where Planets Crashed Into Each Other in a Distant Star System
Our Solar System was born in chaos. Collisions shaped and built the Earth and the other planets, and even delivered…
Astronomers Discover two Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other, Doomed to Collide in the Future.
Until recently, one of the closest orbiting each other pairs of supermassive blackholes was found in NGC 7727. That pair…