Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists Zero In on 5 Planets Beyond Our Solar System
Study Narrows James Webb Space Telescope Targets With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are…
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Cracking the ’Oumuamua Code: Alien Spaceship or Natural Phenomenon?
2017 comet’s unusual acceleration explained by hydrogen outgassing from ice. In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed ‘Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public…
Behold! Rare Quasar Triplet Forms Most Massive Object in Universe
The ASTRID cosmological simulation, a massive simulation run on TACC’s Frontera supercomputer, is aiding in the investigation of ultra-massive black holes. Ultra-massive black holes are…
Alien Sandstorms: NASA’s Webb Unravels the Mysteries of Planet VHS 1256 b’s Silicate Clouds
Weather report: Expect scattered, patchy clouds made up of silicates on planet VHS 1256 b. Ever had hot sand whip across your face? That’s a…
Astronomers Identify Unknown Class of Water-Rich Asteroids
Small planets are believed to have originated from the edges of our Solar System. Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the help of new…
NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope Captures Cosmic Fireworks in Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky
Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area…
Hubble’s Neighborhood Watch: Exploring Every Known Nearby Galaxy
UGCA 307 is a small irregular galaxy located approximately 26 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Corvus. It is part of the Local…
NASA Tracking Supermassive Black Holes on Collision Course
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify two pairs of dwarf galaxies on track to merge. Dwarf galaxies, which are at least about 20 times less…
Spiral Pattern Provides New Clues Into How High-Mass Stars Form
Recent observations have uncovered a spiral pattern in the material disk surrounding a young, high-mass protostar, suggesting the presence of gravitational instability within the disk….
Impending Stellar “Death” Revealed – NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Prelude to Supernova
Wolf-Rayet 124: A Star in Transition Wolf-Rayet stars are a rare prelude to the famous final act of massive stars: the supernova. In one of…
Scientists Identify Thousands of New Cosmic Objects Using Machine Learning
A team of scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology in Thiruvananthapuram, consisting…
NASA, DOE Telescope on Far Side of the Moon Will Reveal the Dark Ages of the Universe
NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) are working together to develop a science instrument that will survive the harsh and unforgiving environment of the…
Webb Spots Globular Cluster Sparkling With Separate Stars in the Milky Way Halo
On June 20, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope spent just over one hour staring at Messier 92 (M92), a globular cluster 27,000 light-years away…
“Unexpected” – Researchers Pinpoint Mysterious Source of Sun’s “Heartbeat-Like” Signals
According to a new study, scientists have pinpointed a solar radio burst in the Sun’s atmosphere that exhibits a signal pattern similar to that of…
NASA’s IXPE Uses Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula as an Extreme Astrophysics Laboratory
About 10,000 years ago, light from the explosion of a giant star in the constellation Vela arrived at Earth. This supernova left behind a dense…
Breathtaking Early Stages of Star Formation Captured With James Webb Space Telescope
Webb space telescope’s mid-infrared capabilities allowed scientists to see past gas and dust clouds to observe previously obscured details in faraway galaxies. A team of…
Webb Space Telescope: Beneath the Night Sky in a Galaxy (Not Too) Far Away
NASA spoke with Kristen McQuinn of Rutgers University, one of the lead scientists on Webb Early Release Science (ERS) program 1334, focused on resolved stellar…
Astonishing Discovery Reveals Water in Our Solar System May Have Originated Billions of Years Before the Sun
ALMA Traces History of Water in Planet Formation Back to the Interstellar Medium Observations of water in the disk forming around protostar V883 Ori have…
