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June 15, 2025
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June 15, 2025 AI has helped astronomers crack open some of the universe s best-kept secrets by analyzing massive datasets about black holes. Using over 12 million simulations powered by high-throughput computing, scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central ...
June 5, 2025 Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...
June 2, 2025 Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...
May 28, 2025 A team of international astronomers have discovered a new cosmic object emitting both radio waves and ...
'Raindrops in the Sun's Corona': New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of Our Star's Atmosphere
May 27, 2025 Scientists have produced the finest images of the Sun's corona to date. To make these high-resolution images and movies, the team developed a new 'coronal adaptive optics' system that removes blur ...
May 22, 2025 Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our understanding of how barred spiral galaxies, ...
May 21, 2025 The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, according to a new ...
May 21, 2025 In the intriguing realm of star-forming galaxies, the key factor isn't the total amount of gas but rather its strategic distribution within the ...
May 21, 2025 Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy's ability to form new ...
May 19, 2025 Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with another galaxy, or have been tossed out of the core ...
May 19, 2025 The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...
May 15, 2025 Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable information on how stars form in that ...
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June 13, 2025 Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed ...
June 12, 2025 Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way. The findings provide a rare ...
June 11, 2025 NASA s CODEX experiment aboard the International Space Station is revealing the Sun like never before. Using advanced filters and a specialized coronagraph, CODEX has captured images showing that the ...
June 11, 2025 Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a ...
June 11, 2025 Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light ...
June 10, 2025 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets orbiting a distant sun-like star. These observations revealed sand-like silicate ...
June 9, 2025 A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using the powerful Very Large Telescope in Chile, they captured dazzling ...
June 7, 2025 An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...
May 9, 2025 Researchers have developed an innovative photodetector capable of detecting a broad range of mid-infrared ...
May 8, 2025 In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A ...
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May 7, 2025 Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new ...
May 6, 2025 Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other ...
Apr. 28, 2025 Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists ...
Apr. 25, 2025 Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...
Apr. 24, 2025 The world's largest solar telescope has reached an important milestone. The data published now were obtained during the technical commissioning of the ...
Apr. 24, 2025 Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...
Apr. 22, 2025 A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface ...
Apr. 18, 2025 Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent ...
Apr. 16, 2025 Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain ...
Apr. 16, 2025 Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' ...
Apr. 16, 2025 An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...
Apr. 15, 2025 Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Apr. 11, 2025 Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...
Apr. 9, 2025 Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence ...
Apr. 3, 2025 A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's ...
Apr. 2, 2025 For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...
Apr. 2, 2025 An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 ...
Apr. 2, 2025 In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new ...
Mar. 20, 2025 Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early ...
Mar. 17, 2025 A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
- The Heart of World's Largest Solar Telescope Begins to Beat
- Scientists Use James Webb Space Telescope to Better Understand Solar System's Origins
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Strongest Hints Yet of Biological Activity Outside the Solar System
- 'Big Surprise': Astronomers Find Planet in Perpendicular Orbit Around Pair of Stars
- The Most Distant Twin of the Milky Way Ever Observed
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Galaxies Die Earlier Than Expected
- Asteroid Impact Threat Estimates Improved for the Earth and the Moon
- Insight from One of Milky Way's Most Extreme Environments
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
- Combination of Cosmic Processes Shapes the Size and Location of Sub-Neptunes
- Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System
Friday, March 14, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Signs of Alien Life May Be Hiding in These Gases
- Entwined Dwarf Stars Reveal Their Location Thanks to Repeated Radio Bursts
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Four Tiny Planets Found Orbiting One of Our Nearest Stars
- Small, Faint and 'unexpected in a Lot of Different Ways': Astronomers Make Galactic Discovery
Monday, March 10, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Small and Large Planets Have Significantly Different Upbringings
- Astronomer Finds Gas Giant Exoplanets Formed Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second
- Ultra-Hot Nova Observed Erupting: Surprising Chemical Signature
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Beyond Our Solar System: Scientists Identify a New Exoplanet Candidate
- NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact
- Today's Forecast: Partially Cloudy Skies on an 'ultra-Hot Neptune'
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light
- Einstein Probe Catches X-Ray Odd Couple
- 'Out of Science Fiction': First 3D Observations of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Reveal a Unique Climate
Friday, February 14, 2025
- 'Game Changing' Release of Type Ia Supernovae Data May Hold Key to the History of the Universe
- New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for in-Space Servicing and Repair Missions
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Jumping Workouts Could Help Astronauts on the Moon and Mars, Study in Mice Suggests
- Phoenix Galaxy Cluster in the Act of Extreme Cooling
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Astronomers Thought They Understood Fast Radio Bursts: A Recent One Calls That Into Question
- Extreme Supersonic Winds Measured on Planet Outside Our Solar System
- First Fast Radio Burst Traced to Old, Dead, Elliptical Galaxy
Friday, January 17, 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- This Tiny Galaxy Is Answering Some Big Questions
- NASA's Pandora Mission One Step Closer to Probing Alien Atmospheres
- Astronomers Observe Real-Time Formation of Black Hole Jets for the First Time
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
- This Quasar May Have Helped Turn the Lights on for the Universe
- Super-Earth Vs. Sub-Neptune? The Winner Is Super-Venus!
- Not All Hot Jupiters Orbit Solo
- Three Tiny 'stellar-Ghost-Town' Galaxies Discovered
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
- NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'blue Lurker' Among Stars
Monday, January 6, 2025
- Beyond the 'Dragon Arc', a Treasure Trove of Unseen Stars
- Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice
Friday, January 3, 2025
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Supermassive Black Holes Halt Rapid Construction in an Ancient Celestial City
- Massive Black Hole in the Early Universe Spotted Taking a 'nap' After Overeating
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets
- Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Friday, December 13, 2024
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Monday, December 9, 2024
- NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
- Universe Expansion Study Confirms Challenge to Cosmic Theory
- Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt
Thursday, December 5, 2024
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
- Astronomers May Have Discovered the Answer to a Mysterious Stellar Event
- Magnetic Tornado Is Stirring Up the Haze at Jupiter's Poles
Monday, November 25, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- A Nearby Supernova Could End the Search for Dark Matter
- Astronomers Take the First Close-Up Picture of a Star Outside Our Galaxy
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
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Monday, November 4, 2024
- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe