Energetic winds from a distant X-ray source A transient source of X-rays is reportedly ejecting a fast-moving wind with other unusual properties. It's the sixth known object to date to have shown those features.

February 8, 2021 by Aayush Arya Read More

Mysterious gas found near Milky Way’s center A cold, dense, and high-velocity gas has been detected near the center of our galaxy. Scientists are puzzled by its presence as neither Sagittarius A* is currently active nor a star is under formation.

December 14, 2020 by Shireen Malthur Read More

Black holes and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity How mathematician Roger Penrose’s black hole modeling in 1965 provided evidence for the Theory of Relativity and earned him the 2020 Nobel Prize.

October 22, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

Neptune-sized planet could be the exposed core of a far-away gas giant Astronomers discover a planet that had less hydrogen and helium than was expected, and so it could be an exposed gas giant core left over from the formation of the solar system around it.

August 12, 2020 by Dylan Mankel Read More

An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Through Our Solar System Scientists are guessing the origins of an interstellar asteroid visitor they detected speeding through our solar system

November 16, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More

A New Field of Science: Space Pasta and Nuclear Crusts Astromaterial science studies nuclear pasta and Coulomb crystals in neutron stars

November 8, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More

Gravitational Waves from A Neutron Star Merger Shake the Earth and Astrophysics The LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detection on Oct 16 leads to major leaps in understanding of astrophysics.

October 19, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More

The Sleeping Giant in a Small Town A supermassive black hole, 17 billion times the size of our Sun, was found in a small galaxy

October 16, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More

Two Black Holes Made a Mega Black Hole! An insight into the size of the gravitational wave as well as the benefit of three detectors

October 11, 2017 by Crystal Riley Read More

Have we finally found dark matter? The Fermi-LAT telescope experiment attempts to pinpoint the origin of an excess of gamma rays that might be a dark matter signal coming from the center of the Milky Way!

June 26, 2017 by Can Kilic Read More