Though an estimated 100 million black holes are predicted to roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have never conclusively identified an isolated black hole until now. Previously,… [+4685 chars]
A Milky Way portrait is provided by a star mapper.The European Space Agencys Gaia spacecraft has now mapped nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, logging their locations, speeds, temperatures, and… [+2774 chars]
All objects contain information we cannot immediately access. Kings Artist in residence Steven Claydon and Dr James Millen in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Enginee… [+4935 chars]
Title:The Radcliffe Wave as the gas spine of the Orion Arm Authors: C. Swiggum , J. Alves , E. DOnghia , R.A. Benjamin , L. Thulasidharan , C. Zucker , E. Poggio , R. Drimmel , J.S. Gallagher III , … [+3977 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved a new mission named Comet Interceptor, which will launch without a specific target in mind, instead waiting for a visitor from the Solar Systems outer rea… [+5237 chars]
Space watchers have spotted a giant sunspot triple the size of the Earth, expressing concern over its potential to beam medium-class (M-class) solar flares towards the Earth. NASA heliophysicst C. A… [+2184 chars]
An explosion on Jupiter, with a force equivalent to 2 million tons of TNT, triggered the biggest flash recorded from Earth on the gas giant in the last 28 years. The phenomenon was caused by the impa… [+1736 chars]
Paleontologists from three universities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, found a fossiliferous site lost for more than 70 years near the city of Dom Pedrito, the heart of the Campanha region and a city … [+6092 chars]
Here's your moment of space beauty for the day. The Hubble Space Telescope stared at the constellation Sagittarius and spotted a luminous collection of stars. NASA highlighted the view of Terzan 9, a… [+1778 chars]
The Milky Way in four maps: data from the Gaia spacecraft show the speed at which stars move towards or away from us, known as radial velocity (top left); their radial velocity and proper motion, or … [+2936 chars]
