NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary …
outer space
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Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer on the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: …
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Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8,000 light-years from Earth. Published today …
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As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. …
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Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles per hour — so fast it …
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Space
Giant ‘Chimneys’ Are Exhaust Vents for Energies Produced by Milky Way
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe center of our galaxy is a frenzy of activity. A behemoth black hole — 4 million times …
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Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were …
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What is a black hole? In an article that has just appeared in the journal Nature Astronomy, LMU …
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On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at …
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New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit …