Astronomy

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of awakening from a long slumber, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the […]

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our solar system to visit our neighborhood. This interstellar interloper is putting on quite a show as it approaches […]

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found. The paper is published in the Monthly […]

Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We’re driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the structured cosmos we see around […]

You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: “Chiron is in retrograde.” If you’re anything like me, you’ve never heard of Chiron before—and I’m a professional astronomer.This post […]

In a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, an international team of astronomers has uncovered for the first time the coexistence of dual fragmentation modes and multi-scale dynamic material accretion within a “hub-filament system” (HFS) […]

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding new light on how galaxies grew and evolved in the early universe. Nicknamed the “Cosmic Grapes,” […]

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star.This post was originally published on this site

Astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple system closest to our own sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the […]

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times heavier than the […]