Watch EarthSky’s Dave Adalian and the Bad Astronomer Phil Plait discuss the biggest black hole merger…
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Did Webb find a black hole formed by a direct collapse?
This is the Webb telescope’s image of the Infinity galaxy, the result of 2 colliding spiral…
Witnessing a solar system’s dawn, for the 1st time
Astronomers have, for the first time, caught the moment when planets began to form around a…
Are dark dwarfs lurking in the heart of the Milky Way?
Artist’s concept of a dark dwarf, a dwarf star containing dark matter. A new study suggests…
Life on Venus? Exciting new VERVE mission could find it
View larger. | Is there life on Venus? This is an artist’s concept of molecules of…
Today in 2015: New Horizons at Pluto
View larger. | When New Horizons arrived at Pluto in 2015, it found this large heart-shaped…
Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS might be oldest comet yet seen
That small moving dot is our new interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/ATLAS. A new study said it…
Is the Milky Way teeming with satellite galaxies?
Artist’s concept of an overhead view of the Milky Way galaxy. New modeling and simulations show…
NASA’s DART mission unleashed a blitz of boulders into space
Plumes of ejecta stream from the little asteroid moon Dimorphos, after NASA’s DART mission spacecraft intentionally struck…
Probing the cosmic Dark Ages from the far side of the moon
An artist’s impression of the UK-led CosmoCube spacecraft. Its mission would be to listen for an…