JWST reveals dark beads and lopsided star patterns in Saturn’s atmosphere
Montage of stills from animation showing the dark, bead-like features embedded in bright auroral halos as Saturn rotates beneath JWST’s...
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Chandra finds black hole that’s growing at 2.4 times the Eddington limit
An artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a...
Galaxies reveal hidden maps of dark matter in the early universe
The researchers focused on data taken from a region of the sky known as the Cosmic Evolution Survey Deep Field...
Brewery makes new beer from yeast launched in rocket
UC students launched their rocket, Rising Star, in the International Rocket Engineering Competition in Midland, Texas. Their payload was yeast...
Primordial black hole’s final burst may solve neutrino mystery
An artist’s illustration showing a tiny black hole within our Milky Way galaxy (top right), which could emit a burst...
Hubble sees white dwarf eating piece of Pluto-like object
This artist's concept shows a white dwarf surrounded by a large debris disk. Debris from pieces of a captured, Pluto-like...
New software tool aims to democratize access to space camera development
Six examples of simulated images produced by SIMply. Credit: Space: Science & Technology (2025). DOI: 10.34133/space.0319 A powerful software tool...
Astronomers detect a new black-widow pulsar
Radio residuals for PSR J1544−2555 using the best ephemeris obtained in the joint radio and gamma-ray timing analysis, shown versus...
Simulations of exoplanet formation may help inform search for extraterrestrial life
Schematic of the modeling framework, illustrating the connection between N-body accretion outcomes and volatile growth simulations. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal...
Supermassive black holes observed in the most distant ‘dying’ massive galaxies, revealing co-evolution
A massive galaxy transitioning to a quiescent phase (artist's conception, left) while hosting an active supermassive black hole at its...
