Cosmic Breakthrough: Accurate New Map of All the Matter in the Universe Released
Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe. Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to…
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A New Explanation for the Mystery of Jupiter’s Asymmetrical Asteroid Swarms
A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An international team of scientists led by Jian…
A One-in-Ten-Billion Binary Star System – First Kilonova Progenitor System Identified
Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope uncover a one-in-ten-billion binary star system. Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile,…
Astronomers Suggest More Galaxies Were Formed in the Early Universe Than Previously Thought
Exploring the universe’s earliest galaxies with NASA’s new space telescope. A team of astronomers, headed by Haojing Yan at the University of Missouri, have used…
Physicists Discover a New Approach for Solving the Bizarre Dark Energy Mystery
What is behind dark energy — and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg…
Challenging Past Assumptions: Light From Outside Our Galaxy Much Brighter Than Expected
Scientists at RIT lead a study utilizing data collected by LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) on NASA’s New Horizons mission. Researchers at Rochester Institute of…
Decades-Old Mystery Solved? Astronomers May Have Uncovered How Galaxies Change Their Shape
By using artificial intelligence, researchers have potentially solved a long-standing question about the evolution of galaxies, speeding up their research process. The researchers have potentially…
Ancient Asteroid Provides Insight Into the Evolution of Our Solar System
A large international collaboration utilized the Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to examine grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid in order to…
Galactic Anomaly: The Milky Way Is Too Big for Its “Cosmological Wall”
Milky Way Discovered To Be More Unique Than Previously Thought Is the Milky Way special, or, at least, is it in a special place in…
A Doomed World: Astronomers Discover an Exoplanet Spiraling Toward Its Destruction
The impending demise of Kepler-1658b as it orbits its aging star offers an opportunity for scientists to gain insight into the fate of other planets…
HYPER (HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics) – A New Model for Dark Matter
Phase transition in early universe changes strength of interaction between dark and normal matter. Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics….
Groundbreaking 3D Map of Cosmic Superbubble’s Magnetic Field Unveiled
Cosmic Superbubble’s Magnetic Field Charted in 3D for the First Time A first-of-its-kind map that could help answer decades-old questions about the origins of stars…
Webb Peers Into Frozen Heart of Molecular Cloud – Unveils Dark Side of Pre-Stellar Ice Chemistry
Webb has identified frozen forms of a wide range of molecules, including carbon dioxide, ammonia, and methane. The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest…
The Black Hole Puzzle: Piecing Together the Origins of Invisible Giants
Researchers say that current measurements of black holes are insufficient to determine the formation process of these invisible giants in the universe. The way a…
Cosmic Feast Unveiled: Two Supermassive Black Holes Discovered Dining Together
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s…
Revealing the Start of Time Itself: Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe May Peer Back to the Beginning of Everything We Know
Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know….
New Clues To Predict When and Where the Sun’s Next Flare Might Explode
Flashes on the Sun Could Help Scientists Predict Solar Flares In the blazing upper atmosphere of the Sun, a team of scientists has found new…
Secrets of a Massive Star Revealed Through Astrophysical Lasers
ALMA scientists used the unique hydrogen radio recombination lines on MWC 349A to reveal hidden collimated jets. While using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
