Oct 2021
The planet appears to orbit a massive star circling a dead star in the Whirlpool galaxy
Astronomers may have spotted the first known exoplanet in another galaxy
Oct 2023
The surprising discovery is puzzling astronomers
The black hole–powered jet in galaxy M87 is making stars explode
Mar 2019
Subatomic particles born in the universe’s first second may imprint their effects on the sky
Hidden ancient neutrinos may shape the patterns of galaxies
Nov 2019
Light packing up to 1 trillion electron volts reveals details of these cosmic explosions
How two gamma-ray bursts created record-breaking high-energy photons
Jul 2021
The Event Horizon Telescope offers an unprecedented look at the streams of plasma
The latest picture of a black hole captures Centaurus A’s massive jets
Jul 2022
The galaxy started spinning just 500 million years after the Big Bang
The most distant rotating galaxy hails from 13.3 billion years ago
Sep 2020
The elusive particles would be hard to catch, but they’d be a smoking gun, researchers say
Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched
Jan 2022
Laboratory experiments suggest that these worlds have especially gooey interiors
Oxygen-rich exoplanets may be geologically active