Space

Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study finds. …

The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights Read More

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of …

A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself Read More

They say that going to space changes you. Often, what’s being referenced is a shift in mindset, a renewed sense of perspective that comes from seeing our world from above, …

Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions Read More

Lightning and the sun — Science News, June 22, 1974 The latest addition to the growing list of meteorological phenomena which have been linked with solar activity is lightning…. Using …

50 years ago, the sun’s influence on Earth’s lightning was revealed Read More

Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years, astronomers have been able to watch the supermassive black hole in SDSS1335+0728’s center …

Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time Read More

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the universe’s high-energy neutrinos. Two teams using data from IceCube, the world’s premier neutrino …

We may finally know the source of mysterious high-energy neutrinos Read More

Keep your eyes on the night sky this summer, scanning for the constellation Corona Borealis, and if you are lucky, you may glimpse what appears to be a new star …

A stellar explosion may create a temporary ‘new star’ this summer Read More

Head-scratching observations of distant galaxies are challenging cosmologists’ dominant ideas about the universe, potentially leading to the implication that the strange substance called dark matter doesn’t exist. That’s one possible …

Strange observations of galaxies challenge ideas about dark matter Read More

In the science-fiction series Dune, the desert-dwelling Fremen of the arid planet Arrakis recycle their body’s moisture using specially designed outfits called stillsuits. Inspired by such imaginings, a new prototype …

A Dune-inspired spacesuit turns astronaut pee into drinking water Read More

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a middleweight black hole in the nearby universe. The discovery could help solve the riddle of how even heftier black holes form and …

A middleweight black hole has been spotted for the first time in our galaxy Read More