An international team of astrophysicists including Princeton’s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The black…

Princeton researchers used observations from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission to deduce that it was likely a violent, catastrophic event – such as a high-speed collision with another body or a gaseous explosion – that created the Geminids meteoroid stream, which produces one of the most intense meteor showers in our night sky each winter.

The sun never sets in the Antarctic summer, which is quite convenient for solar powered science. Susan Redmond, who has spent the last three months helping to launch a solar powered balloon the size of a hockey arena into space, is one of those scientists relying on the endless sunshine of the southernmost continent.

“It’s pretty wild,”…

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, led by Princeton’s David McComas, recently crossed a vital threshold. On Jan. 27, NASA officials reviewed all aspects of the mission design and approved the mission to continue toward launch, currently…

As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) delights stargazers with breathtaking images and groundbreaking discoveries — like the recent revelation that a planet 700 light-years away has a carbon dioxide…

The first laboratory realization of the longstanding but never-before confirmed theory of the puzzling formation of planets, stars and supermassive black holes by swirling surrounding matter has been produced at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). This breakthrough confirmation caps more than 20 years of experiments at PPPL, which…