Space

Supermassive black holes are notoriously messy eaters, but the behemoth at the heart of spiral galaxy NGC 3783 really takes the cake — and then flings it out into space at a fifth the speed of light. Astronomers recently spotted a gale of hot, charged particles erupting from this black hole in the aftermath of a powerful X-ray flare that occurred just a few hours earlier. As one of the…

Can the U.S. beat China to the moon, and will NASA have the resources to do so? These were just some of the considerations raised when SpaceX billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman once again appeared before a Senate committee Wednesday (Dec. 3) for a bid at NASA chief. This wasn’t Isaacman’s first rodeo before the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation…

The final full moon of 2025 treated stargazers to a high-flying lunar spectacle as the “Cold Moon” glowed among the stars of the constellation Taurus on Dec. 4. December’s full moon was the third in a string of “Supermoons” — full moons that occur when the moon reaches its closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit. Around this time, it can appear up to 14% larger…

Scientists have inched a step closer to solving an enduring mystery in physics — why the universe contains any matter at all — thanks to a newly combined analysis from two of the world’s leading neutrino experiments. By pooling nearly 16 years of measurements, the NOvA experiment in the United States and the T2K experiment in Japan have produced the most precise picture yet of how…