MEGATRON simulations connect the first stars with the universe’s smallest galaxies
MEGATRON simulations offer a possible explanation for the similar iron content of many of the smallest galaxies.Radiation delayed…
Inside the Supermassive Debate Over the James Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’
Even years after the discovery of the first little red dot, not much about them is settled. Dale…
Astronomers Pointed Webb at an Empty Spot in Space. Something ‘Highly Unusual’ Flashed Back
A team of astronomers scouring the distant universe for ancient objects that formed shortly after the Big Bang…
“Transmission Strings” mapping reveals 3D shape of exoplanet atmospheres
The shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere mapped using transmission strings. The planet has a broad banded jet around the…
Early galaxies dispersed heavy elements just 500 million years after the Big Bang according to JWST
image: © pixelparticle | iStock A study led by astronomers at the University of Arizona and published in…
The Universe Is Full of Tiny Red Dots—and They’re One of Astronomy’s Biggest Discoveries in Decades
A team from the University of Texas at Austin and its partners is a winner of the 2026…
Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else
This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the…
JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed
An image of elliptical galaxy NGC4696 located at the center of the Centaurus Cluster taken by the Hubble…
How much more of the sky will be seen with the Roman telescope?
New NASA telescope gives largest view of space ever. Here’s how it works WASHINGTON — NASA is preparing…
Space mystery leads scientists to discovery of ‘black hole stars’
Astronomers identify new type of ‘black hole star’ in universe while hunting space mystery A black hole star…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged planetary nebula NGC 2392, which is nicknamed the Lion Nebula due…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…