How Do Supermassive Black Holes ‘Feed’ Themselves?
Newswise — Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers led by Université de Montréal professor Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo…
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects
Newswise — Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have…
A Sweet Surprise: Scientists Find Sugar Deep in Our Galaxy
Our understanding of the Milky Way just got a little bit sweeter. For the first time, scientists have…
F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
The federal government has approved plans by a start-up company to test a satellite that would use a…
Scientists listen to the ‘heart’ of our Sun – and find mysterious behaviour
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge
Much of the praise for Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s debut book in 2021, “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark…
Where Are All These Meteors Coming From?
It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual lately. In March,…
What’s Inside NASA’s Mission Control
Between all the monitors, wires and keyboards are the normal trappings of a workplace: lunchboxes, water bottles, backpacks…
Experiment Reaches Critical Temperature to Unlock Search for Dark Matter
Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/18/2026) — University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers working on the Super…
Primordial Magnetic Fields Could Resolve the Hubble Tension and Other Cosmic Mysteries
BYLINE: Ula Chrobak Read this story in the SLAC News Center Key takeaways: Researchers arrive at significantly different…
Cosmic Curveball: Distant System Challenges Planet-Formation Theory
Newswise — Hamilton, ON, Feb. 12, 2025 – An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary…
Dark Energy Survey Scientists Release Analysis of All Six Years of Survey Data
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an international, collaborative effort to map hundreds of millions of galaxies, detect…