ESA’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 ancient quasars, including two record-breaking objects that shone with the brightness of a trillion Suns when the Universe was just 670 million years old. Powered by supermassive black holes, these extraordinary cosmic beacons reveal a time when the first galaxies were still taking shape.
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration revealed the first picture of a black hole. The object is at the center of a galaxy known as M87, about 55 million light-years away.
It felt like stepping into the future.
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) will be taking a Pakistani astronaut to Tiangong as part of the Shenzou 24 mission, marking the first time a foreign astronaut has been to the station.
SpaceX brought back its Starship rocket's second stage for a first-ever midair capture at its launch pad, capping a record-setting, 22.5-hour orbital flight test.
Since 2022, astronomers have been puzzling over a new kind of cosmic object called long-period radio transients. These are objects that emit bright flashes of radio waves into space every few minutes to every few hours. Some have been traced back to binary systems consisting of a small, dim, cool star called a red dwarf in orbit with a stellar remnant called a white dwarf.
NASA's Voyager 1 is about to become humanity's first object to reach one light-day from Earth as it pushes ever deeper into interstellar space.
Thanks to the gravitational lensing caused by a massive galaxy cluster and high-resolution images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered an exploding star when the universe was 4.9 billion years old. The discovery paper, posted to the arXiv preprint server on Oct. 23, presents a prediction for when the rest of the distorted images of SN Ares will arrive.
On Episode 236 of This Week In Space, Tariq Malik and Rod Pyle are joined by Mikhail Tikhonov to talk about how life can take more unusual forms, ones we might not even recognize.
We're scared of the Xenomorphs again, but Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 knows old-fashioned bug hunts shouldn't be a thing of the past.
SpaceX is looking into why its latest Starship megarocket test flight missed the first of two planned landings on Friday (Nov. 13) during the Starship Flight 15 test.
On Nov. 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 astronauts launched to the moon. Here's why it mattered.
The Kepler Space Telescope, launched March 6, 2009, was designed to search the Milky Way for exoplanets. Using the transit method, Kepler ultimately observed over 500,00 stars and contributed to the discovery of almost 2,700 exoplanets. Though Kepler was originally intended for a 3.5-year mission, NASA announced on Nov. 14, 2012, that the space telescope Continue reading "Nov. 14, 2012: NASA announces an extended mission for Kepler" The post Nov. 14, 2012: NASA announces an extended mission for Kepler appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .
In propulsion system design, engineers have long faced a trade-off between solid and liquid rocket fuels. Each has advantages and disadvantages, and in an effort to try to min/max the efficacy of different types of fuel, researchers have long placed an emphasis on a hybrid between solids and liquids—in other words, they've been working with gels. Unfortunately, gels have their own sets of problems to deal with.
SpaceX caught the upper stage of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever today (Nov. 14), a landmark achievement that could unlock the giant vehicle's immense potential.
Astronomers have uncovered a potentially enormous new dwarf planet beyond Pluto, hidden for years in one of the most crowded regions of the night sky. The discovery of 2026 ED138 could expand the solar system's official dwarf planet family and hints that more mysterious worlds may be lurking far beyond Neptune.
SpaceX said its Starship spacecraft was "healthy" as it orbited the Earth and on track to return Saturday to its Texas launch site, where Elon Musk's company was planning to "catch" the vehicle for the first time.
The red planet Mars will shine a little over 1 degree from Jupiter on the night of Nov. 15-16.
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 13: Spot Mirach’s Ghost Following inferior conjunction early this month, Mercury has reappeared in the morning sky. Now magnitude 0.3, you can find the small planet some 5° above the eastern horizon an hour before sunrise. It lies to the lower Continue reading "The Sky Today on Saturday, November 14: Venus and Mercury in Virgo" The post The Sky Today on Saturday, November 14: Venus and Mercury in Virgo appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .