X-ray spacecraft finds supermassive black hole stirring up the ‘red potato’ galaxy: ‘There may be a cook in this cosmic kitchen’
X-ray spacecraft finds supermassive black hole stirring up the ‘red potato’ galaxy: ‘There may be a cook in this cosmic kitchen’

Using the Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have seen a jet from a feeding supermassive black hole churning gas surrounding a galaxy nicknamed the “red potato.”

A seed that flew around the moon grew into this tree in NYC
A seed that flew around the moon grew into this tree in NYC

The Madison Square Park Conservancy unveiled its moon tree at a smoky birthday party.

An off-the-shelf camera could help us find more black holes smashing together
An off-the-shelf camera could help us find more black holes smashing together

“It doesn’t require any new technology development, which is almost unheard of for solving a LIGO instrumentation problem.”

What lurks beneath the volcanoes of Jupiter’s moon Io? NASA’s Juno probe just took a peek

The subsurface findings could transform how scientists study volcanoes across the solar system — including those on Earth.

This Week In Space LIVE: The Viking Mars landings 50 years later

Tune in today, July 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET for a LIVE This Week In Space taping to mark the 50th anniversary of the Viking landings on Mars.

The first possible exomoon is here, and it makes our Moon look hilariously tiny

Astronomers have found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf, potentially marking the first convincing detection of a moon beyond our solar system.

Hubble telescope watches unique nova explosion fire cosmic ‘bullets’ through the Milky Way at 20 million mph
Hubble telescope watches unique nova explosion fire cosmic ‘bullets’ through the Milky Way at 20 million mph

Using Hubble, astronomers have discovered that the only known “helium nova” in the Milky Way is riddling our galaxy with cosmic bullets travelling at 20 million mph.

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the sun’s missing silver
Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the sun’s missing silver

Scientists say the sun has a little more silver than we thought.

Satellite spots a ‘hummingbird’ in Antarctica | Space photo of the day for July 23, 2026
Satellite spots a ‘hummingbird’ in Antarctica | Space photo of the day for July 23, 2026

A hummingbird shape in satellite data from NISAR is actually a mountaintop spotted in Antarctica.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s disappearing ‘Little Red Dots’ may lead to another cosmic puzzle
The James Webb Space Telescope’s disappearing ‘Little Red Dots’ may lead to another cosmic puzzle

Just as the dinosaurs didn’t disappear but rather evolved into birds, cosmic dinosaurs in the form of the JWST’s Little Red Dots may fade away completely.