Space
New Atlas keeps you up to date with the latest space news and fantastic images from all corners of the Universe.
Given their name, black holes aren’t the kind of places you’d expect to see much light. But sometimes flashes of light are seen as the black holes snack on gas and dust. Earlier this year though the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy flared up in an unprecedented light show, and astronomers don’t really know why.
Latest News
-
Images returned by the Rosetta mission show dramatic evidence of collapsing cliffs and bouncing boulders on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. -
Virgin Galactic's second commercial spacecraft has passed an important milestone. The fuselage, cabin, and wing assembly of the next SpaceShipTwo have been joined together, and the two tail booms have been mated to the rear feather flap assembly.
-
A new study argues that the death of a huge asteroid caused an ice age that dramatically altered the evolution of life on Earth.
-
Just a few weeks after its Starhopper prototype completed its final test flight, SpaceX is busy pulling the pieces together for a higher-flying version.
-
Astronomers from Columbia University have a new theory about what's dimming Tabby's Star – and no, it’s not an alien megastructure.
-
Astronomers have detected the most massive neutron star ever measured, a record-setting object that stretches the limits of what was believed to be physically possible.
-
Hubble has captured a new portrait of the ringed planet Saturn while the gas giant was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit.
-
ESA plans to launch the first Earth observation satellite incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in a few months.
-
Astronomers have studied the ringing tones of a newly-created black hole for the first time, proving Einstein right once again.
-
Astronomers have sighted a comet that could be the second interstellar object ever detected.
-
Water is crucial to life as we know it, so it’s one of the key things astronomers look out for on exoplanets. And now, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of a potentially habitable exoplanet for the first time.
-
A new study suggests that some of the smaller methane lakes on Titan may have been formed by explosions of warming nitrogen.
