AI Tool Uncovers Hundreds of Hidden Cosmic Oddities in Hubble Data
A team of astronomers based at the European Space Agency demonstrated how artificial intelligence technology will alter existing…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
Radio telescopes reveal the final years of a rare exploding star
Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae,…
Computer models reveal how early black holes grew so quickly after the Big Bang
Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at…
Complex building blocks of life form spontaneously in space, study finds
The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in…
Laser Breakthrough Sharpens Radio Telescope Views of Black Holes
Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely…
Astronomers discover the binary origin of fast radio bursts
New insights are emerging into one of astronomy’s most perplexing signals. An international research team led in part…
Einstein–Rosen bridges are not wormholes but quantum links between opposite directions of time
In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen…
Strange iron ‘bar’ discovered inside the Ring Nebula
A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The…
Superionic form of water may power planetary magnetic fields
Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When…
JWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 b
Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the…
Scientists discover onion-like layering in Earth’s inner core
Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional waves…