Earlier this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered and found to have a trajectory through the Earth/Moon system in 2032. The world’s telescopes focused on the potential threat and downgraded
How do galaxies like ours continue producing stars long after they should have used up their star-forming gas. Somehow, an external gas source must find its way into the galaxy.
Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors.
Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an X-ray binary designated XTE J0111.2−7317, which resulted in the detection
As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft traveled through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of 438 million miles from Earth, an international team of astronomers used the far-flung probe to conduct
A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections
Astronomers have made a breakthrough by using 25 year old Hubble images to investigate a potential “rogue planet” drifting through space without a host star. When a brief gravitational microlensing
Some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world are designed to simulate complex astrophysical processes, like what’s happening inside a giant star as it’s going supernova. But researchers have
Astronomers once wondered if the Universe might one day collapse in on itself in a Big Crunch, but the discovery of dark energy suggested that the expansion of the Universe