Sign Up for Our Amazing Newsletter!
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Astronomers discover 83 more supermassive black holes
Astronomers used a cutting-edge camera mounted on one of the world's largest telescopes to discover 83 new quasars - powered by central, supermassive black holes - in the very early universe.
March 18, 2019
Storm in a cosmic teacup
Nicknamed the Teacup because of its shape, this quasar is causing a cosmic storm in a distant galaxy. The source of the squall is a supermassive black hole buried at a galaxy's center.
March 18, 2019
Mining the moon
How can the cost of space travel – to and from the moon and possibly to Mars - be reduced? One approach is to mine the moon for necessary resources.
March 18, 2019
Goldilocks stars: Just right for habitable planets
Which stars are the most likely to have habitable planets? A new study suggest that K stars - between the dimmest M-type red dwarfs and sunlike stars - might provide the sweet spot for life.
March 17, 2019
Hyper-runaway star fled Milky Way disk
University of Michigan astronomers say a hyper-runaway star didn't originate from the galaxy's center, as previously believed. Instead, they say, a cluster of young stars booted it from the galaxy's disk.
March 15, 2019
See the Opportunity rover’s last image
Opportunity - nicknamed "Oppy" - was active on Mars from 2004 until June, 2018, when a planet-wide dust storm covered it. Its final image is a panorama, acquired from Opportunity's final resting place in Mars' Perseverance Valley.
March 15, 2019
Woot! 4,001 exoplanets and counting
The Exoplanet Team, led by the Observatoire de Paris, announced this week that the list of known exoplanets - planets orbiting distant stars - has grown to 4,001!
March 13, 2019
Small asteroid to sweep closer than moon’s distance
The house-sized asteroid - designated 2019 EA2 - will pass safely by our planet on the night of March 21-22, 2019.
March 13, 2019
Astronomers probe a baby star’s mystery gas flows
They used the ALMA telescope to observe a slow outflow and a high speed jet from a newly forming star. These two streams appear misaligned and were apparently launched from different parts of the star-forming disk.
March 12, 2019
How Hubble and Gaia weighed the Milky Way
Scientists used the measured velocities of 44 globular star clusters to measure the mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
March 11, 2019
