Best telescopes 2022: Top picks for viewing planets, galaxies, stars and more By Gemma Lavender published 26 January 22 Buying Guide Our selection of the best telescopes will suit all budgets and needs — whether you're observing planets, stars, the moon or anything else in the night sky.
Powerful, nearby black holes could help to explain universe's origins By Doris Elin Urrutia published 25 January 22 Nearby galaxies and their black holes could hold the answers to the existential questions that remain unanswered about the beginning of the universe.
Polaris: How to find the North Star By Vicky Stein published 24 January 22 Why is Polaris called the North Star and how is it used?
Space photos: The most amazing images this week! By Doris Elin Urrutia published 22 January 22 See the best photos on Space.com this week.
Red giant stars: Facts, definition & the future of the sun By Nola Taylor Tillman published 21 January 22 A red giant star is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. Our own sun will turn into a red giant, expand and engulf the inner planets — possibly even Earth.
Hubble telescope spots a black hole fostering baby stars in a dwarf galaxy By Charles Q. Choi published 21 January 22 Black holes can not only rip stars apart, but they can also trigger star formation, as scientists have now seen in a nearby dwarf galaxy.
The Nearest Stars to Earth (Infographic) By Karl Tate published 20 January 22 Get to know our nearest stars, their distances in light-years, spectral types and their known planets.
Gravitational waves play with fast spinning stars, study suggests By Doris Elin Urrutia published 17 January 22 Scientists observed changes in the signals coming from rapidly-spinning stars called pulsars that might point to the existence of subtle space-time ripples vibrating throughout the entire universe.
Largest dark energy map could reveal the fate of the universe By Tom Metcalfe published 14 January 22 A telescope in Arizona modified to measure the true distance of galaxies has produced the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever.
Streams of stars orbiting the Milky Way shed light on galaxy’s dark matter By Samantha Mathewson published 13 January 22 Stellar groupings orbiting the outskirts of the Milky Way shed new light on the elusive dark matter surrounding our galaxy.
Powerful superflares discovered erupting from superdense stellar corpse By Chelsea Gohd published 13 January 22 A rare type of white dwarf star has been erupting in the most extreme superflares of its kind ever seen, researchers find in a new study.
'Cow' supernova is brightest ever seen in X-ray observations By Tereza Pultarova published 13 January 22 Astronomers have spotted the brightest ever 'Ccow' supernova shining in x-rays providing evidence the mysterious phenomenon might be driven by an emerging black hole or a neutron star.
Giant galactic bubble is driving star formation, new study finds By Charles Q. Choi published 12 January 22 Earth is surrounded by a vast bubble about 1,000 light-years wide whose borders drive the formation of all nearby young stars, a new study finds.
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole is leaking gas By Chelsea Gohd published 12 January 22 The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is leaking.
'Mini' monster black hole discovered hiding in a dwarf galaxy By Chelsea Gohd published 12 January 22 A newly discovered "mini" supermassive black hole could help reveal some of the secrets behind the biggest black holes in the cosmos.
Hunting galaxies far far away: Here's how anyone can explore the universe By Sara Webb published 11 January 22 Aladin Lite is one of the greatest online tools available to look at our universe through the eyes of many different telescopes.
NASA's newly launched X-ray space telescope is ready to start observing the cosmos By Amy Thompson published 11 January 22 NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is set to begin spying on some of the universe's most dramatic objects — black holes and neutron stars.
Stars might be forming much faster than expected, new study suggests By Tereza Pultarova published 10 January 22 Stars might be born much faster than previously expected, a new study using China's radio super telescope revealed.
Astronomers discover 'Maggie,' a giant atomic cloud stretching across the Milky Way By Chelsea Gohd published 7 January 22 Stretching thousands of light-years across the Milky Way, a newly discovered filament of hydrogen named Maggie is one of the biggest structures ever discovered in our galaxy.
Death star: In cosmic first, scientists observe red supergiant just before it explodes By Meghan Bartels published 7 January 22 It's much easier for scientists to see the messy aftermath of stellar explosions than to watch the prelude to the drama.
