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On December 25th, 2021, after many years of anticipation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space. In the sixth-month period that followed,…
University of Chicago astronomers propose ‘spectral siren’ method to understand evolution of the universe. A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear. However,…
If governments don’t act, space rocket junk might have deadly consequences. According to a recent University of British Columbia research, there is a six to…
New COMAP radio survey will peer beneath the “tip of the iceberg” of galaxies to unveil a hidden era of star formation. Sometime around 400…
ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the…
New fossil galaxy discovery could answer important questions about the history of the universe. An ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, thought to be a “fossil” of one…
What Is a Neutron Star? Neutron stars are the extremely dense remnants of supermassive stars that have exploded as supernovae. A star’s evolution and ultimate…
Powerful cosmic radio pulses originating deep in the universe can be used to study hidden pools of gas cocooning nearby galaxies, according to a new…
Scientists investigated the nature of dark matter surrounding galaxies seen as they were 12 billion years ago, billions of years further back in time than…
Researchers use X-ray telescopes and a new data analysis technique to describe space objects. Black holes with varying light signatures that were once thought to…
For the first time, researchers reveal the origin of neutrinos, elementary particles that reach our planet from the depths of the Universe. Highly energetic and…
Zeta Ophiuchi is a single star that likely once had a companion that was destroyed when it went supernova. The supernova explosion sent Zeta Ophiuchi,…
Observations of faint, planet-size star help weigh its millisecond pulsar companion. A dense, collapsed star has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its…
Over 5,000 exoplanets have been detected to date, with more than 90% of them found by using the transit or radial velocity techniques. Of the…
Astronomers detect the most distant galaxy rotation ever, suggesting an initial stage of rotational motion development. Astronomers have been able to detect more and more…
A stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own, has been found by a team of international experts, renowned for…
This intriguing observation from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a gravitationally lensed galaxy with the long-winded identifier SGAS J143845+145407. Gravitational lensing has generated a mirror…
The key to solving a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars: the motion of a tiny number of charged particles. This…