Astronomy News

May 14, 2025 by NASA

Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope, astronomers found evidence of cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Titan. Most of Titan’s lakes and seas are located in that hemisphere, and are likely replenished by an occasional rain of methane and ethane. Webb also has detected a key carbon-containing molecule that gives insight into the chemical processes in Titan’s complex atmosphere. These images...

May 13, 2025 by News Staff

The Jovian aurorae are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, says a team of astronomers by University of Leicester’s Dr. Jonathan Nichols. These...

May 12, 2025 by News Staff

In a 2023 paper, Professor Heino Falcke and his colleagues at Radboud University showed that not only black holes, but also all other objects in the Universe...

May 12, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a stunning image of a spectacular part of a nebula located in the Large Magellanic Cloud,...

May 8, 2025 by News Staff

This supermassive black hole was discovered thanks to the newly-identified tidal disruption event AT2024tvd, an astronomical phenomenon in which a star...

May 7, 2025 by News Staff

Since the Big Bang, the early Universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amount of lithium. Later, some heavier elements, including iron, were forged in...

May 7, 2025 by News Staff

In new research, astronomers used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to observe a highly relativistic jet emanating from the blazar BL...

May 6, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using NSF’s Very Large Array (VLA) have spotted the huge flow of gas near HW2 — a massive protostar located 2,283 light-years away...

May 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have captured a stunning new image of the nebula Gum 80. This VST image...

May 6, 2025 by News Staff

Sub-Neptunes are high-occurrence exoplanets that have no solar system analog. Much smaller than gas giants and typically cooler than hot-Jupiter exoplanets,...

May 5, 2025 by News Staff

The new theory, developed by physicists at Aalto University, describes gravity in a way that’s compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics,...

May 5, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A beautiful new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3596. This Hubble image shows NGC 3596, an intermediate spiral...

Apr 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the massive spiral galaxy NGC 1961. This Hubble image...

Apr 28, 2025 by News Staff

University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity — not just as a pull, but as something that happens when...

Apr 28, 2025 by News Staff

Long invisible to astronomers, the newly-discovered molecular cloud is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the Sun...

Apr 24, 2025 by News Staff

High-energy photons produced deep in gamma-ray burst jets emerging from a collapsed star could dissolve the outer stellar layers into free neutrons, causing...

Apr 23, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass...

Apr 22, 2025 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at MIT have discovered a rocky exoplanet orbiting the bright K-dwarf...

Apr 22, 2025 by News Staff

New research led by University of Hawai’i astronomers suggests our Universe may rotate — just extremely slowly. In shaping the Universe, gravity...

Apr 21, 2025 by News Staff

Highly ionized neon gas detected at the center of the spiral galaxy Messier 83 by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb...