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Hidden in the Halo: MIT Researchers Discover the Universe’s Oldest Stars
SciTechDaily· 8 hours agoAstronomers discovered three ancient stars circling the Milky Way’s halo, formed 12-13 billion years...
James Webb Space Telescope spots most distant and oldest black hole collision ever seen (video)
SPACE.com· 4 hours agoAstronomers have long suspected that supermassive black holes with masses millions or even billions...
In the Milky Way, 3 intruder stars are 'on the run' — in the wrong direction
SPACE.com· 7 hours agoAstronomers have discovered three ancient stars "on the run" in the outskirts of the Milky Way...
Ancient Black Hole Collision Spotted, Occurred Shortly After the Big Bang
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoThe cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which...
Some of the oldest stars in the universe found hiding near the Milky Way's edge — and they may not...
LiveScience· 3 hours agoThree alien stars circling the Milky Way could be some of the oldest ever found in the universe, a...
Astronomers reveal universe's oldest stars hiding in our galaxy
Newsweek· 1 day agoThe heavenly bodies were detected by MIT researchers in the "halo" of stars that surrounds the...
Car-size asteroid gives Earth a close shave in near-miss flyby (video, photo)
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(Image credit: Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project) Thisyear alone, astronomers have found...
Magma world: A volcanic planet is "constantly exploding" with molten lava, astronomers announce
Salon.com· 2 days agoLike a giant exploding ember floating in space, a planet made of molten lava and covered in active...
Giant structure found in deep space throws our understanding of the universe into doubt
MSN News· 2 days agoA giant structure lurking in the distant Universe is fundamentally undermining our understanding of how the cosmos evolved. Astronomers located the unimaginably large, almost ...
Enormous 'God of Destruction' asteroid to pay Earth visit in 2029
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoA 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, Apophis, is expected to make an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in five years, coming within 20,000 miles ...