Using a clever and subtle technique, astronomers have found a black hole that’s only 3,800 light-years from us. The tell: It’s tossing around a star with the mass of the Sun like a ball on a string.
We can actually see the motion of gas screaming away from the site of a supernova, one of the most singular violent events in the cosmos
Mars looking pretty panchromatic, plus my book is one of the best of 2023 so far!
a) Japanese space mission crash site spotted, and 2) flexible solar panels have been invented
A spectacular gas cloud is lit by a monster star
New results reveal the Moon’s liquid outer core and the thickness of the crust of Mars
Astronomers claiming they found an extremely distant galaxy may have been tricked by a very much closer asteroid in their observations
JWST takes the temperature and “tastes” the air of a distant world
An odd Maya calendrical mystery has been solved, using the time it takes planets to orbit the Sun
Help make the world smarter, and a new El Niño means hotter temperatures and changing weather
A NASA video shows how big black holes get. I explain how that works.
Exploding stars can masquerade as really far away galaxies
