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First Detection of Secondary Supermassive Black Hole in a Well-Known Binary System
In a recent study, astronomers found evidence of two supermassive black holes circling each other through signals coming from the jets associated with the accretion of matter into both black...
NASA's new detectors could improve views of gamma-ray events
Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars—all while being less power...
Not your average space explosion: Very long baseline array finds classical novae are anything but simple
While studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence showing that the objects may have been erroneously typecast as...
1st-ever private Venus mission delayed until at least 2025
The Rocket Lab's pioneering private mission to Venus, which had been set to launch last month, has been delayed until at least 2025.
Satellite beams solar power down to Earth, in first-of-a-kind demonstration
Researchers have taken a small but necessary step toward realizing a long-standing dream: harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it down to Earth. A satellite launched in January has steered power in...
Gravitational waves may come from 'cocoons' of debris around dying stars (video)
Astronomers have created the first model for how debris around exploding stars could emit gravitational waves powerful enough to be detected by instruments on Earth.
Satellites watch floods ravage Ukraine following dam explosion (photos)
Satellites watched as floodwaters ravaged southern Ukraine following the mysterious collapse of a major dam on Tuesday (June 6).
Study models geomagnetic field shielding over the last 100,000 years
New models of how the geomagnetic field that shields the Earth's atmosphere from cosmic rays has changed over tens of thousands of years can help us understand how the climate...
James Webb Space Telescope finds the faintest galaxy ever detected at the dawn of the universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the faintest galaxy ever seen, burning away the pitch-black gloom of the early universe 13 billion years ago.
UAH doctoral candidate designs rotating detonation engine aimed to boost lunar and Mars missions
Michaela Hemming, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is using a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities...
Look: Aespa release 'Hold on Tight' music video on World Tetris Day
K-pop stars Aespa released a video for "Hold on Tight," their song for the "Tetris" movie starring Taron Egerton, on World Tetris Day.
NASA’s journey to a strange metal asteroid should finally begin in October
A NASA probe approaches giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche in this concept art. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s upcoming Psyche mission will send a small probe to a unique metal asteroid—a curious object that may be...
One-third of galaxy's most common planets could be in habitable zone
Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just half the mass of...
World's largest iceberg is no more after being ripped apart in 'iceberg graveyard'
Satellite images show fragments from the enormous iceberg A-76A dispersing near South Georgia island, where the previous world's largest iceberg also met its doom in 2020.
NASA-JPL Psyche launch on track with 'outstanding' progress, review board confirms
Steps taken by NASA, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding,...
What's the (dark) matter with Euclid?
Currently about halfway through the Euclid simulations campaign, the key focus in the Main Control Room is the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) and spacecraft commissioning.
Watch Space.com experience moon gravity at 30,000 feet in new mini-documentary out June 7
Space.com's reporter Tereza Pultarova takes part in a research flight simulating lunar gravity in this original documentary.
The ISS’s latest delivery includes space plants and atmospheric lightning monitors
A SpaceX Dragon cargo craft docked with 7,000 pounds of material. NASA The International Space Station received roughly 7,000 pounds of supplies and scientific experiment materials early Tuesday morning following the successful autonomous...
Betelgeuse is almost 50% brighter than normal. What's going on?
Whenever something happens with Betelgeuse, speculations about it exploding as a supernova proliferate. It would be cool if it did. We're far enough away to suffer no consequences, so it's...
Jimi Hendrix rocks the cosmos as an interstellar time traveler in 'Purple Haze'
Jimi Hendrix turns into a galactic time traveler hunting for an ancient cosmic relic in upcoming graphic novel "Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze."
First detection of secondary supermassive black hole in a well-known binary system
Supermassive black holes that weigh several billion times the mass of our sun are present at the centers of active galaxies. Astronomers observe them as bright galactic cores where the...
Disks, spikes and clouds: A peek into a black hole's back yard
The first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 has opened a new window on the universe, enabling in particular the observation of the merger of pairs of massive black...
James Webb Space Telescope peers behind bars to reveal a cosmic 'treasure trove' (video)
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced a stunning image of a distant star-forming barred spiral galaxy as astronomers study star birth outside the Milky Way.
Astronomers discover a new 'warm Jupiter' on an eccentric and misaligned orbit
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new "warm Jupiter" exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1859 b, orbits its parent star on an eccentric and...
SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrives at International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spaceship successfully docked with the International Space Station early Tuesday morning after taking off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the day before.
NASA's Psyche asteroid probe on track for October launch after 1-year delay
NASA's Psyche asteroid mission is on track to hit its new launch target of October 2023, a year later than originally planned, an independent review has found.
Tonga Eruption Triggered Massive 'Equatorial Plasma Bubble'
Scientists are using satellite observations of a massive volcanic eruption’s impact to better understand Earth’s atmosphere
Should future Mars missions have all-female crews?
Statistics show that women are better astronauts than men, but gender diversity is key to a successful Mars mission, experts say.