Galactic Archaeology: Unlocking the Universe’s Oldest Mysteries With Webb
Rutgers astronomer searching for clues about the early universe. Employing massive data sets collected through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a research team led by…
Rutgers astronomer searching for clues about the early universe. Employing massive data sets collected through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a research team led by…
Chandrayaan-3’s landing on the Moon and subsequent sulfur detection has propelled lunar ice research forward, aiding NASA’s plans for a sustainable lunar station. These developments…
Planets like our Earth, including planets with water, could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments, drenched by hard UV light from massive stars….
During the close approach of 2008 OS7 with Earth on February 2, the agency’s Deep Space Network planetary radar gathered the first detailed images of…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the joint Space Situational Awareness Centre commissioned Fraunhofer FHR to accompany the re-entry of the retired ERS-2 satellite. With…
NASA and Intuitive Machines have provided updates on the challenges and successes of the IM-1 mission, marking the first U.S. lunar landing since Apollo 17….
In the image above, NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover is assisted by U.S. Navy personnel as he exits a mockup of the…
The upcoming nova outburst of T Coronae Borealis, visible without telescopes, promises a spectacular sky show in 2024, as it brightens to match the North…
Odysseus’ landing on the Moon represents a landmark achievement for NASA’s lunar exploration, capturing the first soft landing in over 50 years and highlighting the…
JWST images reveal a supermassive black hole in the early universe, notable for its massive size compared to its host galaxy and obscured by thick…
Discovered inadvertently, GRBs have become key to understanding cosmic events, from black hole formation to the universe’s structure, through their immense power and the study…
A low carbon abundance in planetary atmospheres, which the James Webb Space Telescope can detect, could be a signature of habitability. Scientists at MIT, the…
New research led by Dr. Dijun Guo from the National Space Science Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Jianhzong Liu from the Institute…
When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can ingest the surrounding planets and asteroids that were born with it….
Theoretical predictions have been confirmed with the discovery of an outflow of molecular gas from a quasar when the Universe was less than a billion…
Data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggests that many early galaxies were long and thin, not disk-like or spherical. Columbia researchers analyzing images from…
The Moon’s contraction causes fault scarps and moonquakes in the south pole, posing risks for lunar outposts. Findings from a recently published paper led by…
The discovery of a neutron star in Supernova 1987A illuminates the life cycle of stars and the cosmic origins of essential elements. An international team…