How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World
NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the…
NASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way…
New Images Show Andromeda Galaxy as You’ve Never Seen It Before
Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that…
Dark matter discovery: Dark matter mystery Why there is no light yet after decades of search
In 1933, Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky was observing the Coma Cluster — a massive congregation of galaxies about…
Here are the first-ever images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
This composite of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae is one of the first images released by the Vera…
NASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new…
Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared
After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Astronomers Witness Galaxy Shanking Its Rival With a Beam of Radiation
In the cold, ancient reaches of the cosmos, two galaxies are duking it out in a battle that’s…
A Rogue Black Hole of Unusual Size Is Devouring Stars in a Distant Galaxy
Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through…
Why astronomers are starting to doubt cosmology’s standard model
The Coma Cluster is a galaxy cluster composed of over 1,000 galaxies. The most recent distance measurement places…