A black hole is basically just a giant goddamn angry hole in spacetime. Black holes have such an intense gravitational pull, nothing can escape them, not even light, leaving only what appears to be a hole

The launch of the James Webb Telescope – the successor of the Hubble Telescope – has been delayed until 2021 but damn it’s going to be awesome.

Lonely Neutron Star NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s Very Large Telescope (still love the name) discovered this lone neutron star without a stellar companion. A neutron star is the result of

A Gallery of Spacey Goodness A small section of the Veil Nebula captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This picture shows the gassy remains of an 8,000 year old supernova. The Cat's Eye Nebula The

Astrobiology (also known as exobiology) is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life here on Earth and—more importantly—the entire universe. Using existing origin theories and models,

Put simply, dark matter is a substance of unknown nature that produces an exceptional amount of gravity and yet does not interact with light in any currently known way. Which is how it got the name “dark