Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.
Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...
A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...
The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.
Do you have a question about astronomy? Let us know via science@ ... The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 930(2), L12.
The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...
A father-daughter duo cracked an 'alien code' sent by the ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter after a year of work.
More information: Maosheng Xiang et al, The formation and survival of the Milky Way's oldest stellar disk, Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02382-w ...
Stargazing can be as unpredictable as aurora-chasing, but once you’re settled under a dark night’s sky with a vast canopy of ...