Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

The initial report was based on observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. But the results created a lot of hubbub ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic ...

"SPT2349-56 is an extreme case of this. Over 30 galaxies are packed into a region comparable in size to the Andromeda galaxy, one of our nearest neighbors. "However, this system is forming stars ...

Given the immense time it can take for similar orbits to decay, astronomers expect there are many white dwarfs in similar orbits across the galaxy. Indeed, by some estimates, there should be ...

P2 corresponds to the position of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy. Image Credit: DiKerby, Zhang, & Irwin 2025, ApJ Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, ...

Then, they pieced together a record of the X-ray light produced by a supermassive black hole in the Andromeda galaxy called M31 star or M31*. Their research provides insight into the unique ...