White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions
Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions
Did the very young universe make swarms of tiny black holes?
Long ago, the cosmos might have been a black hole factory—and these primordial objects are even weirder than you think
JWST unveils most intricate map yet of cosmic dark matter
Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible
Starless ‘Failed Galaxy’ Is First of Its Kind Ever Seen
Scientists have found the best evidence yet for long-predicted “failed galaxies”
Cheers! Ring in the New Year with Glittering ‘Champagne Cluster’ Image
A galaxy cluster discovered on New Year’s Eve in 2020 shines in a new image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Our Milky Way’s warped disk keeps getting weirder
Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why
Physicists Propose a Simpler, Hotter Origin for the Cosmos
Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for dark matter
Mesmerizing New JWST Image Sharpens Our View of Dark Matter’s Intergalactic Playground
A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen
Astronomers Brace for 10 Million Alerts a Night from Rubin Observatory
Astronomers have never had this much data available this quickly before
Dark Matter ‘Droplets’ Could Solve Multiple Cosmic Mysteries
Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too
World’s Biggest Digital Camera Will Release Its First Photos of the Night Sky. Here’s How to Watch Live
The first images of the cosmos taken by the world’s largest digital camera onboard the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are about to be released to the public. Here’s how to watch the action live
This Revolutionary New Telescope Will Observe the Whole Sky Every Three Days
The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined