Scientists propose Webb Telescope has detected…
Astronomers looking at ancient light seen by the Webb Space Telescope have found three pinpricks that they think…
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Here Comes Euclid, the Telescope That Will…
After Euclid blasts off, it will travel to a spot called Lagrange point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth,…
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
During fleeting fits, the sun occasionally hurls a colossal amount of energy into space. Called solar flares, these…
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible…
The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because…
No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken…
The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
The Enigma of Dragonfly 44, the Galaxy That’s…
In 2016, astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University published a bombshell paper claiming the discovery…
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst…
On the morning of October 9, astronomers’ inboxes pinged with a relatively modest alert: NASA’s Swift Observatory…
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole…
On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the…
Humanity Is Doing Its Best Impression of a Black…
The one thing that all human civilizations have in common is that they end. For 10,000 years or so, that's been the…