SScience Read More Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Formed Up To 12 Billion Years Ago, New Observations SuggestJune 23, 2026 The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have…
PPhysics Read More Scientists use Einstein’s equations to reveal what came before the Big BangJune 21, 2026 Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far…
PPhysics Read More Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early UniverseJune 18, 2026 JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source…
SScience Read More Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early UniverseJune 15, 2026 For several years, astronomers have been puzzling over a peculiar population of objects discovered by the NASA/ESA/CSA James…
SScience Read More NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Spots a Hidden ‘Galaxy Killer’ Lurking in the Early UniverseJune 14, 2026 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a cosmic catastrophe, as winds extinguished a star-forming galaxy in…
SSpace Read More Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever FoundJune 6, 2026 A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
SScience Read More Violent Collision May Have Destroyed Milky Way’s First Stellar DiskMay 20, 2026 New simulations suggest a violent collision 11 billion years ago reshaped our Galaxy and triggered a burst of…
SScience Read More An ultra-faint, chemically primitive galaxy forming in the reionization eraMay 14, 2026 Nakajima, K. & Maiolino, R. Diagnostics for PopIII galaxies and direct collapse black holes in the early Universe.…
SSpace Read More Massive black hole from the early universe has astronomers looking back to the Big BangMay 11, 2026 Far back in cosmic time, one small red object is refusing to behave. Abell 2744–QSO1 appears just 700…
SSpace Read More Extreme galaxy-scale outflows are frequent among luminous early quasarsMay 7, 2026 Carnall, A. C. et al. A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658. Nature 619, 716–719 (2023). Article ADS …
PPhysics Read More A dead galaxy from the early universe is forcing astronomers to rethink galactic evolutionMay 6, 2026 Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds,…
SScience Read More Webb Discovers Slow-Rotating Galaxy in Early UniverseMay 5, 2026 In today’s Universe, most galaxies are held together by orderly rotation. But among the largest, no-longer star-forming systems,…