Astronomers Discover Blockbuster Star They Nicknamed Barbenheimer Because 'We've Never Seen Anything Like This'
SDSS astronomers have discovered an enormous celestial star so unusual they named it 'the Barbenheimer Star'
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Astronomers Detect Oldest Black Hole Ever Observed Dating 'From the Dawn of the Universe'
GN-z11 is a compact galaxy, about one hundred times smaller than the Milky Way, but the ancient black hole is likely harming its development.
This Tiny Moon of Saturn Is the Smallest Case of a Subsurface Ocean Ever Found in the Solar System
Think of a glacier shaped like a ball the size of California or Spain and you have some idea of what Mimas looks like.
Here It Is: Stricken Mars Helicopter is Spotted by Rover-Then NASA Retired it With Honors
Originally designed as a technology demonstration to perform up to five experimental test flights, Ingenuity flew two hours over three years.
Scientists Spot Mysterious Aurora on Distant Celestial Object
Unlike any planets in our solar system that experience aurorae, it's an isolated object in space with no nearby star to create one.
Incredible Pictures Show Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io in Stunning Detail
The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant's four largest moons
First-time Ever, Scientists Find Planet Almost as Big as its Host Star: 'How little we know about the universe'
The team established the mass of the transiting body as 0.35% the mass of the star, and about the size of Neptune-technically impossible.
Space-Loving Schoolgirl Gets to Send Time Capsule Into Lunar Orbit on Recent Rocket Launch
A 10-yo British girl crazy about space has contributed to a time capsule headed for the lunar surface—on Vulcan/Peregrine flight to the Moon.
7-Year-old Girl Obsessed With Space Will Become the First Kid to Send an Item to the Moon
Budding astronaut Elizabeth Norman is only 7 years old, but she already has an object of hers joining an upcoming mission to the moon.
Record-Breaking Fast Radio Burst from Space Alerts Astronomers to Fascinating Blob of Galaxies
Some experts have suggested FRBs may be from an extraterrestrial life form trying to contact other civilizations.
Spacefaring Japan May Become the 5th Country to Land on the Moon This Month
JAXA, or the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, has already accomplished a number of impressive spacefaring feats over the last three decades
80 Shooting Stars Per Hour to Ring in the New Year With January Stargazing Spectacular
In the morning of January 4th, the Quadrantids will pass in front of the north sky and can expect to see 80 shooting stars per hour.
See the Stunning New Image of Uranus - Showing Rings and its Moons Clearer Than Ever
The rings of Saturn are well known, but Webb is now showing that Uranus and Neptune both sport sets of beautiful blue rings.
New James Webb Image Shows 'Crowded, Tumultuous' Heart of Our Galaxy in Never-Before-Seen Detail
The James Webb Space Telescope recently took a picture of the C region of the Sagittarius constellation, deep in the galactic center of the Milky Way in order to find what's going on inside. Located about 300 light years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, and 25,000 light years from […]
Halley's Comet Just Began its 38-year Journey Back Toward Earth-The Big Comeback
The most famous of all comets has a flattened elliptical orbit that sees it go from the Sun to the outer limits of the solar system
NASA Summarizes What New Mars Rover has Found as it Finishes it's Mission at Just Over 1,000 Days
Ever since NASA's 5th Martian rover touched down on the Red Planet, it has been exploring a fan-shaped delta of an extinct water system.
Locked in a 4 Billion-Year-old Dance, Six New Exoplanets Demonstrate the Cosmic Beauty of 'Resonant Orbits'
6 newly-discovered exoplanets are orbiting in perfect resonance around a star in an eons-long 'waltz' that indicates they are newly formed.
NASA Turns Light into Sound Frequency Creating a Milky Way Symphony (LISTEN)
In each of the images, optical, infrared, and X-ray light has its own track, some represented by strings, and others by bells, or synths.
NASA Sends Data Over 10 Million Miles for the First Time Using a Laser
The test data was beamed about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth, from the recently-launched Psyche spacecraft to California.
Evidence of Massive Solar Storm Found in Ancient Tree Rings Could Help Scientists Predict the Next One
An international team of scientists has documented the largest solar storm to have ever struck the Earth, hidden inside the trunks of ancient trees. Such a massive storm today on the scale of the newly discovered one would cause total disruptions to global technology and infrastructure, from power transformers to satellites, but better understanding how […]
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