Galaxy starves its supermassive black hole, loses 95% of its brightness

“It is fascinating that an active galactic nucleus can change its brightness so dramatically over such a short period of time.”

Watch Comet MAPS get destroyed by cataclysmic fragmentation near the sun

A dramatic breakup near the sun erased hopes of a bright comet lighting up the evening sky this week.

Deja vu: Trump proposes cutting NASA science funding by 47% again

NASA faces the possibility of steep cuts again as the FY 2027 budget request proposes a 23% reduction in overall funding and a 47% cut to science programs.

The powerful new Rubin Observatory just found 11,000 new asteroids and measured ‘tens of thousands more’

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

Dozens of hidden star streams found in the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy

Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation and dark matter.

Pulsars to the extreme: Spinning dead stars found blasting radio signals from the ‘edge of their magnetic reach’

Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio signals from their extremities.

Stunning new James Webb Space Telescope images reveal ‘hidden’ stars being born

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the star-forming region W51, resulting in stunning new images.

Saturn’s magnetic field is curiously warped, and one of its moons may be to blame

“A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon Enceladus start to be developed.”

This star-forming galaxy is blowing out powerful winds topping 2 million mph

NASA’s XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation.

Record-breaking ‘space laser’ erupts from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years away

Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest “space laser” ever seen, and it’s blasting from a galaxy collision that occurred when the universe was half its current age.