A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It’s a stellar stream that stretches out across 30,000 light-years, and is located around 80,000 light-years away. Such globular clusters are
It started as another exoplanet in a group labeled “ordinary.” No one expected that a world, once thought to be a mini-Neptune, would reveal traits of a super-Venus and change how we see certain planetary types. Astronomers used JWST data to learn more about an unusual place called Enaiposha, that orbits a red dwarf star
A superfluid is supposed to flow forever without friction. Yet researchers have now observed one come to a stop. In classical physics, matter falls neatly into familiar categories: gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas. But as temperatures approach absolute zero, quantum mechanics begins to reshape those categories in ways that defy everyday intuition. That is how,
Annular solar eclipse captured on Feb. 17, 2026 by ESA’s Proba-2 satellite. (Image credit: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium) On Feb. 17, 2026, the moon slipped directly between Earth and the sun, creating a spectacular ‘ring of fire’ visible to very few people on Earth, but ESA’s Proba-2 had had the best seat in the house.
Scientists have dived deeper into the “eye of the storm” swirling around supermassive black holes than ever before. This unprecedented investigation of the turbulent and violent conditions around these cosmic titans, including the first black hole ever imaged by humanity, was possible thanks to the joint Japanese Aerospace Agency (JAXA)/ NASA X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy
On Jan. 28, 2026, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had spotted its furthest detectable galaxy to date. The announcement marks the closest astronomers have come to studying the early origins of our universe, showing it as it appears just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
When NASA’s Artemis II mission embarks on a 10-day journey around the moon, the crew may glimpse features on the lunar surface that no other human has seen with the naked eye. As the astronauts fly by the mysterious lunar far side, which always faces away from Earth, they will view a part of the
A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a “hell heron” that waded through shallower waters. The fossil was unearthed by a team of around 20 researchers in the central Sahara region of Niger, offering critical clues to how the giant
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array , astronomers have investigated 70 dusty, star-forming galaxies at the very edge of the universe. These galaxies, seen as they were less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang, could change everything we know about cosmic evolution. It seems these galaxies were
LLANO, Calif. (KABC) — A 29-year-old Llano man is in custody, charged with killing a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives say 67-year-old Carl Grillmair was found shot to death on the porch of his home in rural Llano. Deputies had arrested Freddy Snyder