Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery
When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never…
This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered
Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion…
NASA Installs Key ‘Sunblock’ Shield on Roman Space Telescope
Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the…
For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
Press Release 16 July 2025 International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began…
Dozens of ‘Ghost Galaxies’ Are Orbiting the Milky Way, Astronomers Suspect
The Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) theory suggests that most galaxies are low-mass dwarf galaxies, many of which…
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…
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…
Hands-On at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Its First Enormous 5 Gigapixel Image
Last year, PetaPixel visited the SLAC Laboratories in Stanford to go hands-on with the LSST camera module, the…