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NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
SPACE.com· 1 day agoAstronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of...
7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoScientists recently identified seven stars in the Milky Way that could potentially be gigantic alien...
Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star...
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAstronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for...
Astronomers Are Awaiting an Explosion in the Sky That Only Occurs Every 80 Years
CNET· 1 day agoNASA scientists and global astronomers are currently awaiting a nova event, and regular Earthlings will be able to see it with the naked eye. After that, we'll have to wait ...
Witness the rare T Coronae Borealis nova this summer
Beaumont Enterprise· 1 day ago“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event that will create a lot of new astronomers out there, giving young people a cosmic event they can observe for themselves,...
JWST spotted an incredible number of supernovae in the early universe
New Scientist· 17 hours agoAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found an astonishing number of supernovae in the distant universe, including the farthest ever confirmed. The ...
To calibrate telescopes on Earth, NASA's launching an 'artificial star' to orbit
Space via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThe mission's primary goal is to... measuring how much of the lasers' light — which would have a...
Binary star system could go nova soon since last explosion 80 years ago, NASA says
The Republican· 7 hours agoAny day now, it will appear as though one of the night sky’s constellations is exploding, an...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
SPACE.com· 6 hours agoThe black hearts of galaxies have had their history told almost in full for the first time, as ...