Astronomy
There Are No Such Things As Black Holes
That's the conclusion reached by one researcher from the University of North Carolina: black holes can't exist in our Universe --…
Did Wild Weather — Or A Companion — Cause Eerie Infrared Glow From This Baby Star?
Watch out! Carbon monoxide gas is likely fleeing the disk of a young star like our Sun, producing an unusual…
A Triple Occultation Bonanza: A Challenging Series of Occultations This Weekend and More
Got clear skies? This week’s equinox means the return of astronomical Fall for northern hemisphere observers and a slow but…
A 3-D Printed Telescope Took This Picture Of The Moon — And The Plans Are Coming
What would Galileo think of this? Here's a shot of our closest large celestial neighbor, the Moon, taken through a…
MAVEN Arrives at Mars! Parks Safely in Orbit
138 million miles and 10 months journey from planet Earth, MAVEN moved into its new home around the planet Mars this evening. Flight…
Lazy Giant Galaxies Gain Mass By Ingesting Smaller Neighbors
The Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales has been watching how lazy giant galaxies gain size - and it isn't…
219 Million Stars Create the Most Detailed Catalogue of our Milky Way Yet
On the darkest of nights, thousands of stars are sprinkled across the celestial sphere above us. Or, to be exact,…
This Exoplanet Has Prematurely Aged its Star
Hot young stars are wildly active, emitting huge eruptions of charged particles form their surfaces. But as they age they…
Surprise! Tiny Galaxy Sports A Huge Black Hole, And There Could Be More Like It
In a finding that could turn supermassive black hole formation theories upside-down, astronomers have spotted one of these beasts inside…
Glowing Galaxies Shine Above Trance-Like Telescopic Timelapse
We often speak of the discoveries and data flowing from astronomical observatories, which makes it easy to forget the cool…