Surprising new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the soft, settled “wing” of the Sombrero Galaxy’s disk may be hiding a troubled past.…
Simulated Webb images of the quasar and the galaxy surrounding the quasar
Illustration of a quasar in the early universe. Researchers will study the galaxies that surround three bright quasars in detail for the first time with…
THIS HUGE PLANET SHOULD NOT EXIST
Scientists have identified an unusually large exoplanet that orbits ab Centauri, a huge two-star system visible to the naked eye. With a combined weight of…
Mysterious Clouds May Offer New Clues About Dark Matter
Researchers are using powerful instruments, which detect gravitational waves billions of light-years away, to locate possible boson clouds – they would be a likely source…
Mars from the InSight Out
A hardworking seismometer has helped scientists reveal the interior structure of Mars in more detail than ever before. Credit: Mary Heinrichs, AGU With more than…
Mysterious Clouds May Offer More Clues About Dark Matter
The search for gravitational waves could help solve one of the other burning mysteries of the Universe: boson clouds and whether they are one of…
Huge black hole discovered in Milky Way satellite galaxy
Photo: Astronomers have discovered that Leo I (inset), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way (main image), has a black hole almost as massive…
ESO telescope uncovers closest pair of supermassive black holes yet
This image shows close-up (left) and wide-field (right) views of the two bright galactic nuclei that each host a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO Using…
New theory suggests wormholes could be shortcuts through space-time
A new theory has attempted to explain whether wormholes, also known as the Einstein-Rosen bridge – a theoretical connection of two separate points in space-time…
They uncover the mystery of why Jupiter emits X-ray northern lights
Image credit: NASA/ESA Astronomers have watched Jupiter produce X-ray auroras for forty years, but they did not know how they were produced, only that they…