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Why are these black hole jets aligned?
The only way for this alignment to exist is if the supermassive black holes in this part of space are all spinning in the same direction.
April 16, 2016
Kepler is OK! Spacecraft recovered from emergency
Kepler mission engineers still aren’t sure why the planet-hunting spacecraft went into Emergency Mode last week.
April 12, 2016
Stars strip atmospheres of super-Earths
The planets are 2-10 times as massive as Earth. They orbit near their stars and receive some 650 times the radiation that Earth receives from our sun.
April 11, 2016
Planet 9 not affecting Cassini at Saturn
"Although we'd love it if Cassini could help detect a new planet, we don't see any perturbations in our orbit that we cannot explain with our current models," said Cassini project manager Earl Maize.
April 9, 2016
Supermassive black holes everywhere?
A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe suggests these monster objects might be more common than once thought.
April 9, 2016
Laser cloaking to hide Earth from aliens?
If we wanted to hide Earth from alien civilizations, could we do it? Apparently, we could, according to new work by two scientists at Columbia University.
April 8, 2016
Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris
The supernovae may have been less than 300 light-years away. The evidence comes from radioactive iron-60, found in ocean sediments and crust.
April 6, 2016
SETI turns focus to 20,000 red dwarf stars
Astronomers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence had their reasons for ignoring red dwarf stars in the past. But now that thinking has changed.
April 6, 2016
Asteroid swept within moon’s distance April 5
Astronomers did know in advance that asteroid 2016 FW13 would pass closely - but safely - on April 5, 2016. Check out a photo from the Virtual Telescope Project.
April 5, 2016
Astronomers await pings from troubled Hitomi
An unknown disaster seems to have befallen the Japanese satellite that launched in February. Why X-ray astronomers are anxious for good news.
April 5, 2016
