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January 15, 2019

Hubble Space Telescope will last through the mid-2020s, report says

SEATTLE — Despite recent issues with one of its instruments, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to last at least another five years.

January 11, 2019

Exploding 'cow' seen in space might be first black hole birth ever seen

Last June, an incredibly bright supernova known as "The Cow" ripped across the sky, hovering above the Earth for a number of weeks. While The Cow provided significant excitement for astronomers, who learned it traveled 200 million light-years, new research suggests that it is indeed the witness of the birth of a black hole or neutron star, a first in the history of mankind.

January 11, 2019

This huge black hole is spinning at half the speed of light

The crumbs left over from a supermassive black hole's recent meal have allowed scientists to calculate the monster's rotation rate, and the results are mind-boggling.

January 11, 2019

'Light echoes' of black hole reveal clues behind dazzling x-ray flares

An instrument aboard the International Space Station has helped reveal how black holes release brilliant flares of X-rays, a new study finds.

January 9, 2019

Astronomers discover radio signal from galaxy billions of light-years away, report says

Canadian astronomers have discovered a repetitive radio signal some 2.5 billion light-years away from Earth — only the second example known to mankind.

January 9, 2019

NASA spacecraft snaps incredible picture of Earth

Nearly a month after it reached its destination, circling the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has snapped an incredible image of the Earth.

January 8, 2019

Hubble space telescope captures amazing galaxy image

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an amazing image of the Triangulum Galaxy, which is 3 million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy. The image is comprised of 665 million pixels and was created from 54 different images, a view in space so large that it spans "an area more than 19,000 light-years across."

January 6, 2019

Milky Way will collide with nearby galaxy, hurtling solar system into space, report says

A nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way galaxy and send the solar system, where Earth resides, hurtling into space, according to a journal article in the Royal Astronomical Society.

January 4, 2019

NASA announces latest discoveries from Ultima Thule flyby

NASA has announced the latest discoveries from the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic flyby of Ultima Thule in the far reaches of our solar system.

January 4, 2019

'Fossil' cloud made up of pure hydrogen could be remnants of the Big Bang

The Big Bang is generally accepted to have occurred roughly 13.7 billion years ago, a time when the universe contained light elements, the heaviest among them hydrogen. From there, elements with significant heft permeated throughout the universe as we know it today.