Space & Aviation

We welcome Zhibo Yu as our guest blogger. He is the first author of a paper that is the subject of our latest Chandra press release and is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University, where .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

A new study of nine nearby galaxies has shown that actively growing supermassive black holes may contribute to star formation, instead preventing star formation, in their host galaxies.

Astronomers have speculated about the mysterious “little red dots” seen through the James Webb Space Telescope’s images of the early universe: they could be galaxies, black holes, quasi-stars, starbursts...or something else entirely.

A six-foot-wide, seven-ton asteroid caused the rare celestial spectacle

In the Northern Hemisphere this week, the calendar officially passes from winter into spring when the length of the day and the night become equal as the days become longer. Meanwhile, there are places in space where blooms of the stellar variety .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has taken a new observation of what may be the first documented evidence of a supernova, RCW 86.

The findings further hint that space rocks may have brought the building blocks of RNA and DNA to Earth long ago