An unusual infrared light emission from a nearby neutron star detected by NASA’s Hubble Space…
Browsing: Cosmology
Cosmology is the scientific study of the origin, structure, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. It explores the largest scales of space and time, seeking to understand phenomena such as the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy. By combining observations from telescopes, satellites, and large-scale surveys with theoretical physics, cosmologists aim to unravel how the universe began, how it has changed over billions of years, and what its ultimate destiny might be. As new data from missions like the James Webb Space Telescope and surveys like DESI emerge, cosmology continues to shed light on some of the most profound questions in science.
Astronomers believe two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way—the Large and Small Magellanic…
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data…
Stars frequently form in crowded environments. By combining the resources of multi-wavelength missions like Chandra…
Astronomers from Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found evidence that…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has started a new mission to shed light on the…
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the spiral galaxy NGC…
The explosions of stars, known as supernovae, can be so bright they outshine their host…
Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their…
On September 9, 2018, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO, saw two lunar transits as the…
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life…
New research shows that phosphorus, which is vital to life but somewhat rare, condensed inside…
Apart from a billion Milky Way stars, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft also observes extragalactic objects. Its…
Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens, have detected the most-distant galactic…
The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or…
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic…
At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova.…