JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here’s What It Found…
Somewhere in the Universe, an alien culture may have developed the technology to build giant megastructures around stars,…
Researchers Used Two Telescopes to Discover a Planet Hidden In Plain Sight
‘This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows Beta Pictoris d, a new planet found orbiting…
The 25 Best James Webb Space Telescope Photos
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating its fourth birthday today, and like PetaPixel did two years…
223-Megapixel Photo Shows 16.5 Million Stars and Took Three Days to Capture
‘Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 and trace its evolutionary…
Astronomers Discover Two Monster Black Holes Creating a Cosmic Void as They Merge
Artistic depiction, for illustrative purposes online. Space is usually crowded at the center of a giant galaxy. Stars…
A dead galaxy from the early universe is forcing astronomers to rethink galactic evolution
Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds,…
A planet that tricks physics? Webb reveals the secret behind Saturn’s strange rotation
For decades, Saturn has been playing a strange trick on scientists. Depending on how they measure it, the…
JWST confirmed the most distant galaxy ever observed at 13.5 billion light years away
With James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has confirmed its sightings of the farthest known galaxy to date,…
Astronomers Discover Gigantic Iron Bar Running Through Ring Nebula
Astronomers discovered this iron bar running for 3.7 trillion miles in the middle of the Ring Nebula |…
James Webb Space Telescope figures out how black hole murdered Pablo’s Galaxy
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Were black holes born before stars? JWST finds a troubling case
When astronomers look deep into the early universe, they don’t expect to see fully developed cosmic objects but…
The 7 Most Groundbreaking NASA Discoveries of 2025
In 2025, NASA faced unprecedented uncertainty as it grappled with sweeping layoffs, looming budget cuts, and leadership switch-ups.…