The full moon rises over a wheat field in southern Alberta, Canada, on August 30, 2023. (Image courtesy of Getty Images, royalty-free) The last full moon of summer in the Northern Hemisphere occurs on Sunday, September 7, and is best…
The first ever image of Earth taken by a space probe from lunar orbit was recorded on August 23, 1966. (Image: NASA) KEY DETAILS The gist: The world’s first photograph of our planet taken from the surface of the Moon.…
Photographer Joshua Tam captured a mysterious spiral star glowing above the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin while trying to capture “shooting stars” from the Perseid meteor shower. While watching the Perseid meteor shower’s “shooting stars,” viewers across a large swath of…
An artist’s impression of the events leading up to the supernova explosion of SN 2023zkd, which likely occurred when the star attempted to devour a nearby black hole. Here, the star’s shape is distorted by the black hole’s powerful gravity.…
Scientists have suggested that a newly discovered possible gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could have a habitable moon similar to Pandora from the Avatar films. (Photo: Photo 12, Alamy) A potential gas giant just found orbiting in the habitable…
(Image credit: Giacomo Infelise, Veronica Magli, Guido Sbrogio, Nevenka Martinello and Federica Chiara Serpe) Imagine leaving Earth forever and embarking on a space journey on a ship designed to carry you and thousands of others to the nearest star system,…
An artist’s impression of the Cosmic Grape galaxy, which contains at least 15 large star-forming clusters. (Image credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO) The distant galaxy is thought to contain more than a dozen tightly clustered star-forming clusters arranged like a bunch of…
A look at the Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, where a supermassive black hole is likely hidden. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) A new study has shown that a huge galaxy system known as the “Cosmic Horseshoe” likely hosts a giant…
An illustration of a supermassive black hole merging with a smaller black hole. Such interactions can produce asteroid-sized “fragments” of the black hole, and scientists are eager to study them. (Image credit: Pitris via Getty Images) A new theoretical study…
This artist’s impression shows the galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9, which contains the earliest confirmed black hole to date. (Image credit: Eric Zumalt/University of Texas at Austin) Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a black hole that is more…
Image taken by the Vera K. Rubin Dark Energy Observatory camera. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) Astronomers have found two giant galaxies engaged in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from our planet, and for the first time in a galaxy so…
An artist’s rendering of a black hole. (Photo courtesy of BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash) An astrophysicist has proposed a bold plan for how humanity could explore extreme physics in black holes by sending a spacecraft no bigger than a paper clip…