Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Shaped Like Bananas, Study Suggests Images from the Webb telescope suggest that newborn galaxies look weirder than expected. Exactly how screwy was physics at the dawn of time?
Our Galaxy Is Home to Trillions of Worlds Gone Rogue Astronomers have found that free-floating planets far outnumber those bound to a host star.
Neutrinos Detection Builds a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way Astronomers for the first time detected neutrinos that originated within our local galaxy using a new technique.
Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard Just 1,600 light-years away, the black hole is the closest known to Earth. The good news: It’s dormant, at least for now.
Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light? The Event Horizon Telescope reaches again for a glimpse of the “unseeable.”