Planetary Intelligence: Can a Planet Have a Mind of Its Own?
Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank discusses why cognitive activity operating on a planetary scale is necessary to tackle global issues such as climate change. The collective…
Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank discusses why cognitive activity operating on a planetary scale is necessary to tackle global issues such as climate change. The collective…
Interactions Between These Two Galaxies Is Creating a Tsunami of Starbirth If you like looking at weirdly shaped galaxies, there’s no better place than the…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched last December, has been slowly powering up its instruments and unfurling its sunshield, and is now in the…
The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s jetstream. MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of…
An international team of astronomers led by Violeta Gámez Rosas (Leiden University) has observed a supermassive black hole hidden in a ring of dust. This…
Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises to peer farther into space than ever before. But…
A century ago two prominent astronomers held a debate at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The topic concerned the nature of the faint spiral…
Ancient dwarf galaxy reconstructed with MilkyWay@home volunteer computer. Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that…
What Is “Redshift?” ‘Redshift’ is a key concept for astronomers. The term can be understood literally — the wavelength of the light is stretched, so…
It’s first light for one of the newest space observatories! The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer team has released their first image, taken after a month-long…
The next commercial cargo mission to the space station, celebrating the first year of Perseverance on Mars, and the first science images from a recently…
Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years now, but may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron…
Astronomers are increasingly drawing back the curtains on black holes. In the past few years, we have finally captured actual photos of these fearsome creatures…
University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million stars that can…
In a case of cosmic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring…
New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on…
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, which launched December 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase. All instruments are…
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center of the galaxy Messier 77…