Astronomy News
April 30, 2025
Top Headlines
Apr. 28, 2025 — The NASA New Horizons spacecraft's extensive observations of Lyman-alpha emissions have resulted in the first-ever map from the galaxy at this important ultraviolet wavelength, providing a new look ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud 'Eos,' ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to ...
Latest Headlines
updated 1:16pm EDT
Apr. 24, 2025 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the Moon. Water ice would be an important resource at a future lunar base, as it could be used ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Geologists weigh in on a long-running debate about Mars: Billions of years ago, was the Red Planet warm and wet or cold and ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. ...
Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d ...
Apr. 14, 2025 — Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up ...
Apr. 11, 2025 — Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...
Apr. 10, 2025 — A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence ...
Apr. 9, 2025 — The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the ...
Apr. 8, 2025 — Every galaxy is thought to form at the center of a dark matter halo. Stars are formed when gravity within dark matter halos draws in gas, but astrophysicists don't know whether star-free dark ...
Apr. 4, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's ...
Apr. 3, 2025 — The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new ...
Apr. 2, 2025 — Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its ...
Mar. 31, 2025 — Inhaling dust particles from the Red Planet over long periods of time could put humans at risk of developing respiratory issues, thyroid disease and other health ...
Mar. 24, 2025 — The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit features similar to the ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- 'Big Surprise': Astronomers Find Planet in Perpendicular Orbit Around Pair of Stars
- The Most Distant Twin of the Milky Way Ever Observed
- 'Cosmic Radio' Could Find Dark Matter in 15 Years
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- On Jupiter, It's Mushballs All the Way Down
- Molten Martian Core Could Explain Red Planet's Magnetic Quirks
- Mysterious Atmosphere of 'Rosetta Stone' Exoplanet
Monday, April 14, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- 'Hidden Galaxies': Key to Unlocking Some of Universe's Secrets
- Scientists Source Solar Emissions With Largest-Ever Concentration of Rare Helium Isotope
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield to Unleash Heat
- Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Galaxies Die Earlier Than Expected
- Insight from One of Milky Way's Most Extreme Environments
- Sound Frequencies of Stars Sing of Our Galaxy's Past and Future
Monday, March 31, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes
- Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System
- Age of Upcoming Asteroid Flyby Target
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Weighing in on a Mars Water Debate
- Detailed Map of Dust in the Milky Way
- Violent Supernovae 'triggered at Least Two Earth Extinctions'
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Signs of Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Gases
- Entwined Dwarf Stars Reveal Their Location Thanks to Repeated Radio Bursts
- Black Holes: Not Endings, but Beginnings? New Research Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Universe
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Four Tiny Planets Found Orbiting One of Our Nearest Stars
- Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist
- Small, Faint and 'unexpected in a Lot of Different Ways': Astronomers Make Galactic Discovery
Monday, March 10, 2025
- James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Unexpected Complex Chemistry in Primordial Galaxy
- Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars
- Small and Large Planets Have Significantly Different Upbringings
- Astronomer Finds Gas Giant Exoplanets Formed Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Ultra-Hot Nova Observed Erupting: Surprising Chemical Signature
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Beyond Our Solar System: Scientists Identify a New Exoplanet Candidate
- NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Young Star Clusters Give Birth to Rogue Planetary-Mass Objects
- NASA's Hubble Provides Bird's-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy's Ecosystem
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Lunar Trailblazer Blasts Off to Map Water on the Moon
- Why Is Mars Red? Scientists May Finally Have the Answer
- Today's Forecast: Partially Cloudy Skies on an 'ultra-Hot Neptune'
- The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light
- Einstein Probe Catches X-Ray Odd Couple
- 'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Friday, February 14, 2025
- Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System
- New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for in-Space Servicing and Repair Missions
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Creation of Black Holes Without Singularities Through Pure Gravity
- Astronomers Gauge Livability of Exoplanets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars
- Phoenix Galaxy Cluster in the Act of Extreme Cooling
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- New Technique to Detect Dark Matter Using Atomic Clocks and Lasers
- Alien Ocean Could Hide Signs of Life from Spacecraft
- Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Wobbling Stars Reveal Hidden Companions in Gaia Data
- Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- A Less 'clumpy,' More Complex Universe?
- The Hidden Power of the Smallest Microquasars
- Exploring Mysteries of Asteroid Bennu
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Follow the Water: Searching for a Lunar Oasis
- A Super-Earth Laboratory for Searching Life Elsewhere in the Universe
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Innovation 'sifts' Space for Mysteries
- Dwarf Planet Ceres: Building Blocks of Life Delivered from Space
- How Titan Maintains Its Atmosphere
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Astronomers Thought They Understood Fast Radio Bursts: A Recent One Calls That Into Question
- Extreme Supersonic Winds Measured on Planet Outside Our Solar System
- First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy
Friday, January 17, 2025
- NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
- The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast to Fit Theories: Hubble Tension in Crisis
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- This Tiny Galaxy Is Answering Some Big Questions
- Large and Small Galaxies May Grow in Ways More Similar Than Expected
- NASA's Pandora Mission One Step Closer to Probing Alien Atmospheres
- Astronomers Observe Real-Time Formation of Black Hole Jets for the First Time
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
- This Quasar May Have Helped Turn the Lights on for the Universe
- Super-Earth Vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner Is Super-Venus!
- Not All Hot Jupiters Orbit Solo
- Three Tiny 'stellar-Ghost-Town' Galaxies Discovered
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
- NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'blue Lurker' Among Stars
- New Study Unveils Breakthrough in Understanding Cosmic Particle Accelerators
- X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously