What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key
Supermassive black holes are engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of our galaxy and its central hole don’t quite match expectations. ..
Supermassive black holes are engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of our galaxy and its central hole don’t quite match expectations. ..
Two weeks after the spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, researchers determined that it knocked the space rock 32 minutes off its old orbit. ..
NASA will soon release the results of its DART mission to find out whether crashing a probe into a space rock can deflect it. Here’s how they'll do the math. ..
Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t. ..
The mission was designed to test whether a probe could knock a hazardous space rock away from a crash course with Earth. ..
Bad weather forced a third delay for the space agency’s SLS rocket plans—another setback for the uncrewed back-to-the-moon mission. ..
Virgin Orbit will launch satellites from the country for the first time, bringing orbital flight capability to Europe. ..
These are tantalizing hints that microbes might have lived on Mars billions of years ago, but scientists need to study the rocks back on Earth to be sure. ..
At a high-profile meeting in Geneva, international negotiators are moving closer toward developing rules for space actors in low Earth orbit and beyond. ..
The grainy image of a “super Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s observations ramp up. ..