Roman Series: Jupiters Around Other Suns
Episode description: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar…
A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
Ghost particle detected beneath Antarctica leads scientists to hidden galaxy 11 billion light years away |
A tiny particle that barely interacts with anything in the universe has helped scientists solve one of astronomy’s…
Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post
A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the “brightest young scientists” in the US and Canada…
NASA’s Webb Reveals Black Hole That Formed Before Its Galaxy
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it…
Microlensing Event at OGLE-2013-BLG-0341 (Hubble Image)
A follow-up observation by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a field containing a microlensing event that was captured…
Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center
This VISTA VVV Survey image shows the galactic bulge near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the…
New dark matter model explains three cosmic mysteries across universe
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, suggests that a different type of…
Astronomers detect mega-laser beam signal from 8 billion light-years away |
One of the most remarkable discoveries made by astronomers in recent years is the identification of an extremely…
MeerKat Telescope Spots Mega-Powered “Space Laser” Beaming Across the Cosmos, Revealing Most Distant Luminous Object Known
In a discovery that astronomers are calling a “truly extraordinary” find, a powerful “space laser” mega-beam has been…
Does dark matter actually exist? New theory says it could be gravity behaving strangely
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AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive
A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived…