JWST Dives Deep into the Ultra-Hot Exoplanet WASP-121b todayheadline
WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, is a giant, ultra-hot, gaseous planet located 858 light years from Earth. It’s hot because ...
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Captured This Cotton Candy Nebula, Here’s What it Will Capture Next todayheadline
In Late June of 2025, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Rubin) finally released its first images of dazzling stars, ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s Chandra Shares a New View of Our Galactic Neighbor
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a ...
Read moreDetailsNICER Status Updates – NASA
NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to ...
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Here are the first-ever images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
This composite of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae is one of the first images released by the Vera C. Rubin ...
Read moreDetailsHubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene
This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, ...
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Hubble spots a cosmic bullseye
Back to Article List The galaxy LEDA 1313424 has been nicknamed the Bullseye Galaxy, thanks to the nine rings that ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s Roman to Peer Into Cosmic ‘Lenses’ to Better Define Dark Matter
A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it ...
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Galaxy cluster pileup sets record for the size of its glow
A radio glow surrounds PLCK G287.0+32.9, seen here in a composite image with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope (purple) ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s Chandra Sees Surprisingly Strong Black Hole Jet at Cosmic “Noon”
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from ...
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