New findings about intermediate-mass black holes could shed light on some of the universe’s more mysterious components. In a recently published paper, a group of scientists have found new evidence of ...

RIT plays big role in new black hole discoveries Associate Professor Richard O’Shaughnessy and two alumni involved in paper on intermediate-mass black hole research ‌ LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) ...

Rubin Observatory’s 10-year main mission will provide a sort of time-lapse movie of the cosmos that will show other observatories where to look for new discoveries.

World New species found with babies crawling on its back and four other discoveries By Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization Updated July 29, 2025 10:04 AM ...

New Discoveries Expand TESS’s Exoplanet Catalog NASA’s TESS mission has been at the forefront of discovering exoplanets since its launch in 2018. With a primary focus on detecting transiting ...

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life News By Daniel Apai published June 15, 2025 ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world's most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images ...

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). "'Raindrops in the Sun's corona': New adaptive optics shows stunning details of our star's atmosphere." ScienceDaily.

Donald Schneider, distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and the university’s representative on the LSST-Discovery Alliance Institutional Board, has been interested ...

The new image shows carbon monoxide – represented in orange – blowing away from the star in a butterfly-shaped outflow, with a blue jet of silicon monoxide shining like an alien spine.

But he admitted the AI couldn’t yet come up with new discoveries. “No, it cannot come up with the new idea. These things are so wedded to what is known.

That appears to be changing, with adjustments to the astronomy curriculum that faculty believe will make an astronomy minor more accessible to students with a deep interest in the subject but a ...