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April 22, 2019

Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week: How to watch the starry spectacle

Stargazers are going to appreciate these April showers.

April 22, 2019

The Hubble just took a gorgeous new image of the Southern Crab Nebula's wonky gas bubbles

Twenty years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a giant crab in the sky.

April 22, 2019

NASA spots mysterious galactic 'jellyfish' in space

The government space agency said it had found a "jellyfish"-like galaxy, known as ESO 137-001, with a tail made up of long gas stretching 260,000 light-years across space.

April 19, 2019

There's a tiny, bright magnetar photobombing our galaxy's supermassive black hole

There's a bright magnetar photobombing the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, frustrating astronomers' efforts to study the black hole — called Sagittarius A* — using X-ray telescopes.

April 17, 2019

We could soon watch a black hole in action, gobbling up matter in real time

DENVER — Last week, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first-ever image of a black hole's shadow cast against the hot gas of its accretion disk.

April 17, 2019

Physicists think you could be rescued from a black hole — but don't risk it

DENVER — Researchers have developed a new, unspeakably dangerous, and incredibly slow method of crossing the universe.

April 13, 2019

Astronomers seek public's help in naming minor planet discovered over 10 years ago

A minor planet discovered in our solar system over a decade ago remains nameless as the astronomers who made the revelation are now turning to the public for help.

April 13, 2019

Internet trolls attempted to discredit Katie Bouman’s work on black hole project

Katie Bouman became an overnight celebrity after a viral photo circulated the internet following her work that helped lead to the first image of a black hole Wednesday and then the internet trolls tried to discredit her.

April 12, 2019

4 lessons humanity learned from the new black hole image

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black holes are cosmic prisons, where nothing escapes, not light or even data. But lots did come out of Wednesday's first image of the shadowy edge of a supermassive black hole. Here are four things we learned:

April 12, 2019

What happens if you get sucked into a black hole?

First, your insides are strung out like hot mozzarella, before you're yanked into all-encompassing darkness that swallows you whole.