Galactic black holes are cosmic mitochondria, powerhouses of the Universe. Most of the energy these supermassive black...
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The core of the Milky Way is a dense, active, messy region, dominated by a supermassive black...
The first week of October kicks off with two don’t miss skywatching events. It’s a busy skywatching...
Deep space travel comes with a huge potential downside – radiation exposure that can kill an astronaut...
Heat shields are undeniably one of the most important parts of any spacecraft that intends to enter...
Using data from the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) observatory, scientists recently observed BP Crucis, a...
Asteroid sample return missions have brought well preserved samples of the early solar system (that hadn’t been...
On September 23rd, NASA announced its first selection in a new class of astrophysics missions called Probe...
On Saturday, September 19th, the Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit of Earth, marking yet another...
Getting a human body to Mars will take a toll on it. NASA and other space agencies...
The planet Mars is known for its massive dust storms, dust devils, and two large polar ice...
The formation and evolution of planets is the driving force behind both where and how we might...
Exoplanets continue to challenge our understanding of planetary formation, evolution, and whether they might be able to...
Enceladus, one of Saturn’s many moons, is one of the most promising places for exploration and astrobiology...
Since their first discovery in 1995, hot Jupiter exoplanets (hot Jupiters, for short) quickly challenged our understanding...
The Universe has been making fewer stars lately, and astronomers want to know why. The obvious answer...
To measure the expansion rate of the cosmos, astronomers rely on the relationship between distance and recessional...
We are bathed in light from the ancient cosmos. It began its journey when the Universe finally...
There’s an active debate in the astrobiology community of where to use our best telescopes to look...
The black holes at the hearts of galaxies get the credit and/or blame for a lot of...