With help from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Array (NuSTAR) X-ray telescope, a group of researchers recently bore unusually close witness to the formation and evolution of an unexpected corona around a supermassive black hole as it destroyed a star that had passed too close to it.
The event, located 250 million light years from Earth, is only the fifth-closest observation of a star being destroyed by a black hole.
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and retired Spitzer Space Telescope, a group of…
On June 13, the third major data release from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia…
In a new study from a group of researchers in Canada, data from NASA’s now-retired…
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have released the…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid space telescope has moved closer to launch after prime…
With the James Webb Space Telescope continuing its commissioning phase, NASA is already looking ahead…
At 18:17 UTC on January 8, 2022, the joint NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and…
Following a launch on December 25 atop an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket, the joint NASA/ESA/CSA…
It is a mission more than 25 years in the making. The revolutionary JWST (James…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), presently tracking toward a launch no earlier than December…
This December, an Ariane 5 rocket will launch from Kourou, French Guiana carrying the most…
When the joint NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope launches atop an Ariane 5 rocket this…
In the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Canis Major, lies a very young, very massive…
On 14 November 2014, a bright flash flagged the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae,…