Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin
First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe.…
NASA’s Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have…
Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It.
The driving force behind our universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this…
Powerhouse Parramatta home to new observatory with telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies
More than two centuries after a famed observatory was built in Parramatta, a new one has been constructed…
These 7 Stunning Space Images Show the Universe Through the Largest Digital Camera Ever Built
The LSST camera, with one of the color filters positioned in place. Credit: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory…
9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes. Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and…
Fast and Furious Star Formation in Starburst Galaxies
While our Sun was born almost five billion years ago, there are brand new stars forming today. Within…
Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new…
NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe
“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very…
Scientists locate mysterious ‘missing’ space matter
Massachusetts researchers locate mysterious ‘missing’ space matter Scientists at MIT find ‘missing’ space matter, drawing new maps of…
Rubin Gets a Closer Look at the COSMOS Field, Revealing More Than 650,000 Galaxies in One Image
A new image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captures a well-documented patch of the universe in exceptional…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…