This artist’s concept depicts the central region of the blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and a jet oriented toward Earth. Credit: NASA/Pablo Garcia…
Category: Planetary Science
Alternative black hole models suggest quantum effects may erase need for singularities
Singular black hole and non-singular alternatives. Credit: Sissa Medialab. Background image sourced from ESO/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (eso.org/public/images/eso1101a/) Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the…
NASA takes possession of Orion for Artemis II moon mission
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin,…
Easy vote turns Musk’s dreams for Starbase city in Texas into reality
Voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of making Starbase into its own independent city in the southern US state of Texas. Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of gaining city status for…
Space junk falling to Earth needs to be tracked—meteoroid sounds can help
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound…
How to catch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, debris of Halley’s comet
This photo provided by NASA shows an Eta Aquarid meteor streaking over northern Georgia on April 29, 2012. Credit: B. Cooke/Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA via AP, File Halley’s comet swings…
New telescope images uncover ‘Green Monster’ in Cassiopeia A
Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO, NASA/JPL/Caltech/NuStar; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; IR:…
3 astronauts return to Earth after 6 months on China’s space station
Chinese astronauts Wang Haoze, from left, Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong wave as they attend the see-off ceremony for the Shenzhou-19 mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern…
Astronomers discover explosive outflow in star-forming complex using ALMA data
The 1.3 mm continuum map of G34 is depicted in the colorscale. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.15748 The study found that half of the identified streamers are receding, reaching radial…
