The Event Horizon Telescope is expanding its portfolio of black hole images. In 2019, the telescope unveiled the first image of a black hole, revealing the supermassive beast 55 light-years from…
Evidence of ancient life may have been scrubbed from parts of Mars, a new NASA study has found. The space agency's Curiosity rover made the surprising discovery while investigating clay-rich…
t has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we prepared a major flight challenge for Ingenuity. We uplinked instructions for the flight, which occurred…
An unknown methane-producing process is likely at work in the hidden ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy by scientists…
Experiment opens up field for new physics, say Fermilab, UChicago scientistsThe news that muons have a little extra wiggle in their step sent word buzzing around the world this spring.…
There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey. A central law for black holes predicts that the area of their event horizons —…
Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars. New findings from a team using the international Gemini Observatory and the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope…
Astronomers have found convincing evidence that supernovae come in a third flavor, powered by a long-suspected explosive mechanism that may explain a bright supernova humans observed 1,000 ago and that…
Not looking good! NASA is continuing to diagnose a problem with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope after completing another set of tests on June 23 and 24.…
Gas to Stars Each of the many hundreds of stars we can see with our naked eye, or the many thousands we can see with the aid of telescopes, has…
CURIOSITY'S SKYCRANE MANEUVER In this artist's concept, Curiosity is in the final moments of its descent toward Mars, and is being lowered from the descent stage to the surface on three…
The Milky Way’s Double Bubble When it comes to blowing bubbles, never go toe-to-toe with a galaxy. Ten years ago, astronomers were astonished to discover large bubble-like structures emerging from the heart…