Astronomy
Here’s the Asteroid Hayabusa2 is Going to be Visiting Next
Check out this image of asteroid 1998 KY26 from the Subaru Telescope. It's not exactly beautiful, but it's not intended…
Missing: Supermassive Black Hole With up to 100 BILLION Times the Mass of the Sun
The massive galaxy cluster Abell 2261 should have a supermassive black hole in its center. But it doesn't. Astronomers have…
Astronomers set a new Record and Find the Farthest Galaxy. Its Light Took 13.4 Billion Years to Reach us
Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things…
Astronomers Discover Hundreds of High-Velocity Stars, Many on Their Way Out of the Milky Way
Combining data from two of the largest databases in the world, an international team of astronomers was able to doubledthe…
Some of Hayabusa2’s Samples are as Big as a Centimeter
A fireball hurtled across the sky on December 5th – the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa2 asteroid mission by…
Astronomers Capture a Direct Image of a Brown Dwarf
The field of exoplanet photography is just getting underway, with astronomers around the world striving to capture clear images of…
Brines Could be Present on the Surface of Mars for up to 12 Hours, Never for a Full day
We are extremely interested in the possibility of water on Mars, because where there's water, there's the potential for life.…
One of the Largest, Most Complete Einstein Rings Ever Seen. Astronomers Call it the “Molten Ring”
A very rare astronomical phenomenon has been in the headlines a lot recently, and for good reason. It will be…
A Single Filament of Gas Has Been Discovered That Stretches 50 Million Light-Years
Minute vibrating strings found in string theory are not the only ones that are of interest to physicists. The Standard…
Astronomy 2021: Top Events for the Coming Year
Eclipses, meteor showers, occultations and more.