Nasa’s James Webb space telescope has detected six enormous galaxies located at the farthest reaches of the universe that are so ancient that they shouldn’t even be able to exist – this is the breaking news.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space observatory that was launched to space back in December 2021. Its primary mission is to study…
A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole. It Didn’t End Well
A disk of H๏τ gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star…
It’s official: Saturn is Losing its rings — and they’re disappearing much faster than scientists had anticipated
Saturn’s recognizaƄle rings would undouƄtedly help you choose it out of a crowd. They are our solar systeм’s largest and brightest rings. Wide enough to fit six…
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
Scientists Watch a Star Destroy a Planet: “We Are Seeing the Future of the Earth”
This artist’s impression shows a doomed planet skimming the surface of its star. Astronomers used a combination of telescopes to spot the first direct evidence of an…
NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From Jupiter
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is shown in this image from NASA’s Juno mission. New observations by NASA’s NuSTAR reveal that auroras near both the planet’s poles emit high-energy…
Mercury Is No Longer The Closest Astronomical Body To The Sun: Scientists Just Discovered Our Star’s New Nearest Neighbor
The fastest asteroid in the Solar System has been discovered at NOIRLab’s CTIO using the powerful 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) in Chile — the Sun’s new…
Andromeda, The Galaxy That Will Collide With The Milky Way, Is Already Visible To The Naked Eye In The Sky
Andromeda is on a collision course with our galaxy. Now begins the best time of year to capture it with the naked eye. Our galaxy, the Milky…
Don’t Miss: “Peak Venus” and Jupiter Occultation
An occultation is a celestial event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that pᴀsses between it and the observer. In this Jupiter occultation…
Bright stars provide the dust that gives rise to life.
When low to medium-mᴀss stars exhaust their supply of hydrogen, they exit their main sequence phase and expand to become red giants – what is known as…