Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Carries Methane with Record-Breaking Heavy Hydrogen
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected the most deuterium-rich methane ever measured in the…
Colliding Stars in Early Universe May Explain Stellar Monsters, Study Suggests
Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the…
Webb Finds Dust-Rich Water Ice in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found that the water ice in the interstellar comet…
Record-Breaking Fast Radio Burst from Early Universe Traced to Tiny, Star-Forming Galaxy
This fast radio burst, designated FRB 20240304B, is the most distant ever detected, having traveled more than 10…
Webb Captures Stunning Infrared View of Eskimo Nebula
New infrared observations of the Eskimo Nebula, a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini, reveal…
Webb Finds Stellar ‘Treasure Chest’ in Carina Nebula
A stunning new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a comet-shaped cloud in the Carina…
Northrop Grumman, Canadian Space Agency repurpose their Gateway projects
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman and the Canadian Space Agency said this week they will adapt what they had…
Astronomers Find Omega Centauri’s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole
After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to…
Astronomers Discover and Directly Image Third Planet in Beta Pictoris System
Named Beta Pictoris d, the newly-discovered world is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b — the first…
Webb Reveals Hidden Heart of Centaurus A
Celebrating four years of science, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has pierced the thick dust of the…
MDA Space wins contract for Radarsat replenishment satellite
WASHINGTON — MDA Space will build a radar imaging satellite for the Canadian Space Agency as the government…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations Suggest
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have…