An artist’s illustration of the star HIP 67522 b emitting a burst of plasma toward the planet. (Image credit: Daniel Futselaar) Astronomers have found the first evidence of a “death planet” – an exoplanet that orbits so close to its…
SNR 0509-67.5, calcium in blue, is seen in two concentric shells, indicating a double detonation. (Image credit: ESO Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.) For the first time, astronomers have obtained dramatic visual evidence of a…
An example of a jellyfish galaxy, with blue “tentacles” at the bottom where star formation is taking place. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope may have just found one of the most distant jellyfish galaxies ever discovered. (Image credit:…
Astronomers have discovered two bright “novae” shining simultaneously in the night sky: V572 Velorum (left) and V462 Lupi (right). It may be the first time that multiple novae have been visible to the naked eye. (Photo credit: Eliot Herman) A…
Astronomers have discovered a new star shining brightly in the night sky. (Photo credit: Brian Allen via Getty Images) A “nova” has been created in the constellation Lupus by an unexpected explosion in the Milky Way – and it can…
SpaceX’s 36th rocket exploded in a massive fireball during a routine test, the exact cause is unknown. (Image credit: NASASpaceflight) SpaceX’s Starship rocket has exploded again, adding to the company’s growing list of failures. The rocket’s upper stage, the largest…
Siccar Point, as seen by the Curiosity rover, is located near Gale Crater on Mars. (Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS; Processing and license: Kevin M. Gill) Is Mars really as red as people say? – Jasmine, 14, Everson, WA Since ancient times,…
The Vera K. Rubin Observatory sits atop a mountain in Chile. (Photo courtesy of Hernan Stockebrand) The new Vera K. Rubin Observatory is set to release its first images — taken by the largest digital camera ever built — on…
Scientists are planning to darken the satellites’ bodies so they reflect less light into the night sky, helping to preserve our view of space. (Image credit: Anton Petrus via Getty Images) A satellite coated in one of the darkest materials…
Orbits of the planets in the 14 Herculis system. (Image credit: Deion Desir/AMNH/OpenSpace) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached another major milestone by directly imaging a distant, cold planet in a solar system different from our own, astronomers…
Using radio waves generated by high-energy processes outside our galaxy, astronomers have found a solution to the “missing baryon problem,” explaining all the ordinary matter in the universe. (Photo: Melissa Weiss/CfA) About half of all ordinary matter in the Universe…
A new AI model (right) has helped refine details in the first-ever photographs of black holes (left) taken by the Event Horizon Telescope. But can the new models be trusted? (Image credit: EHT Collaboration/Janssen et al.) The massive black hole…