Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth—an expert explains what we know
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
Hubble Just Revealed a Breathtaking New View of a Nearby Galaxy
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.
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Strange signals from the center of our galaxy hint at a new kind of dark matter
Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...
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Detailed map of dust in the Milky Way
Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
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7 Weird Facts About Black Holes
For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...
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Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Astronomers make galactic discovery
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...
Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
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Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy
A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...
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Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'
"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
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NASA, SpaceX launch SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH heliophysics...
SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...
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Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': U-M astronomers make galactic discovery
The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...
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The galaxy next to the Milky Way may have a giant black hole
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy. This segment airs on March 7, 2025. Audio ...