Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? What are we even looking at? ~space astronomy Article 2287 words 11 votes
Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’ ~space astronomy Article 1433 words 63 votes
With a second repeating radio burst, astronomers close in on an explanation ~space astronomy.radio Article 1527 words 7 votes
New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter ~science astronomy physics.astro Article 672 words 10 votes
Astronomers discover eighty-three supermassive black holes in the early universe ~space astronomy Link 6 votes
Breathtaking new NASA images show Jupiter’s otherworldy storms ~space astronomy Article 286 words 5 votes
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu ~space astronomy Article 574 words 16 votes
Meet Hippocamp! Neptune's smallest moon has a name (and a violent past) ~space astronomy Article 948 words 11 votes
Our first interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, is still a mystery. Despite some speculation, it's not a spaceship... but it might be a three-dimensional fractal snowflake. ~science astronomy Article 1347 words 9 votes
Milky Way is 'S-shaped', 3D map reveals, in a new way of looking at our celestial home ~space astronomy Article 909 words 4 votes
The 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight ~space astronomy Article 1406 words 12 votes
Physicists stimulate Hawking radiation from optical analogue of a black hole ~science physics astronomy Article 1390 words, published Jan 19 2019 6 votes
Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed ~space astronomy Article 1169 words 12 votes
When this post is fifteen hours old the spacecraft New Horizons will do a flyby of the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule ~space astronomy Link 8 votes
Astronomers have found a star that may produce the next gamma-ray burst in the Milky Way ~science astronomy Article 1377 words 10 votes
Big new Indian rocket launches satellite, setting stage for Moon mission ~space astronomy rocketry satellites Article 549 words 6 votes
Moons around 'rogue planets' could sustain life — no solar system required ~space astronomy Article 784 words, published Oct 10 2018 15 votes
The woman who reinvented the moon: A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story ~space astronomy Article 2481 words 5 votes
Incredible 4K video of Earth from the ISS ~space astronomy Video 1:32:40, published Feb 9 2018 7 votes
Interstellar object may have been alien probe, Harvard paper argues, but experts are skeptical ~science astronomy Article 23 votes
New research shows a pattern of exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars unlike what we see in our own system ~space astronomy Article 1039 words 10 votes
Hubble’s hardware woes and the painful era of aging spacecraft ~space astronomy Article 484 words 9 votes
Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church ~science astronomy Article 1373 words 10 votes
Interstellar visitor found to be unlike a comet or an asteroid ~space astronomy Article 1089 words 12 votes
Nasa’s Hubble telescope is out of action: It needs three functioning gyroscopes to work but currently only has two. ~space astronomy Article 672 words 8 votes
The growing case for an elusive ninth planet: Astronomers have found another quirky object that suggests a giant body lurks at the fringes of the solar system ~space astronomy Article 472 words 13 votes
Asteroid landing - Japan lands first ever robotic explorers on space rock Ryugu ~space astronomy Article 552 words 14 votes
New Mexico observatory closure stemmed from FBI child porn probe: documents ~space astronomy Article 386 words 14 votes
Astronomers have found an exoplanet around the same star that Vulcan orbits in Star Trek canon ~space astronomy Article 12 votes
TESS is doing better than expected in hunt for exoplanets ~space astronomy Article 630 words 13 votes
‘Nobody would tell us anything’: US Solar Observatory mysteriously closed by FBI ~space astronomy Article 427 words 9 votes