Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist in one of the first astrophysical studies of the cosmic…
An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of two planets with Earth-like masses…
Astrophysicists shed light on how hydrogen fog burned away after the Big Bang. UCLA astrophysicists are among the first scientists to use the James Webb…
Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved – the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies…
Webb’s infrared camera peers through dust clouds, enabling discovery. Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a “deep dive” into one of the first…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of the first medium-deep wide-field images of the cosmos, featuring a region of the sky known as…
NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Destroying a Star Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand…
NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Find Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water In the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film “Waterworld” Earth’s polar ice caps have completely melted,…
In a tale of cosmic proportions, the region is being transformed by the massive stars that live and die within it. A new image combining…
A behemoth black hole, as massive as the one at the center of the Milky Way, is hosted by a dwarf galaxy less than 1…
Researchers at the University of Arizona leveraged supercomputing power to create simulations of millions of computer-generated “universes” to test astrophysical predictions that have eluded astronomical…
A new model for matter in neutron star collisions. After a massive star burns its fuel and explodes as a supernova, an exceedingly compact object…
The condemned planet could help answer questions about the fate of other worlds as their solar systems evolve. An incredible discovery has been made by…
Webb’s Infrared Capabilities Pierce Through Dust Clouds to Make Rare Find Searching for buried treasure isn’t easy. It can be a painstaking, even frustrating, process….
After numerous setbacks, 20 years of development, a hefty $10 billion dollar price tag, and a perilous 1-million-mile (1.5-million-kilometer) journey into space, the new James…
Scientists determine that a gamma-ray burst detected on Earth was caused by a space explosion that happened when the universe was less than 900 million…
Planets are surrounded by rings because they are made up of particles that orbit the planet. These particles can be made up of a variety…
According to a recent paper by a math professor at the University of Arkansas, the existence of life on Earth provides proof that abiogenesis is…
