3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission
Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.
Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.
The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure based on how its spin changes during a close encounter with Earth.
The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.
The moon sustained twice as many impacts as can be seen on its surface, scientists find.
Just 33 light-years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets.
The varied surface suggests a dynamic history, which could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, and a lost rocky mantle.
The image reveals a glowing, donut-shaped ring at the Milky Way’s heart.
The system is orbited by third stellar companion and may have originated near the center of the Milky Way.
The findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar material.
Named after a goddess of the dawn, the Thesan simulation of the first billion years helps explain how radiation shaped the early universe.