Black hole ‘traffic jams’ discovered in galactic centers by astronomers

Individual normalized torques for the M• = 107M⊙ case. Black lines show combined type I torques…

SpaceX launch marks 300th successful booster landing

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX sent up the 30th launch from the Space Coast for the…

International team detects eruption of mega-magnetic star in nearby galaxy

Artist’s impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever…

Researchers find oldest undisputed evidence of Earth’s magnetic field

An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded iron formation that is found in the…

Lunar landforms indicate geologically recent seismic activity on the moon

Global random spatial age distribution (0–250 million years) of 34 lunar lobate scarps in this study.…

Japan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a weekslong lunar night. It’s still going after 3

This image provided by SLIM official X account @SLIM–JAXA shows a part of the moon surface…

China to send three astronauts to Tiangong space station, part of its ambitious program

Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou-18 mission Ye Guangfu, center, Li Guangsu, left, and Li Cong…

Star bars show universe’s early galaxies evolved much faster than previously thought

A gray-scale image of the galaxy EGS_31125 at 10.6 billion years ago as seen by the…

A first glimpse at our galaxy’s magnetic field in 3D

The surveyed area on the sky. Left: Full-sky map of the polarized glow emitted by dust,…

The South African radio telescope that’s transformed our understanding of the cosmos

Some of the satellite dishes that make up the MeerKAT. Credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory…