A dormant supermassive black hole 30,000 light‑years from its galaxy’s center was exposed by a sudden violent outburst. An international team of astronomers has identified a supermassive black hole roaming roughly 30,000 light‑years from the heart of...

stars because they are the fossil record of the galaxy’s formation,” Ben Williams of the University of Washington told Daily Galaxy. He added, “Hubble is the only telescope that can give you high enough spatial resolution over a large enough area to be...

Study shows Uranus’s odd rotation stretches its bow shock, causing it to expand and contract every planetary day. New simulations reveal that the ice giant Uranus reshapes its bow shock on a daily basis, driven by the planet’s extreme axial tilt and an...

chapter lists for Paul’s epistles, part of a navigational system that pre‑dated modern page numbers. According to the Daily Galaxy, this system—known as the Euthalian apparatus—also included prologues and quotation markers. Multispectral imaging and...

of the cosmos. For further details, see the original paper in Physical Review Letters and related coverage at Daily Galaxy.

and produce a total solar eclipse visible from parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain. The eclipse link was reported by Daily Galaxy. Skywatchers can thus enjoy a final glimpse of the Moon’s illuminated crescent before it disappears behind the Sun,...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope is revealing surprising chemistry and cloud patterns in brown dwarfs, challenging current models of these enigmatic cosmic objects. New observations from NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope are challenging our understanding of brown...