Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
NASA’s new JWST space telescope has revealed some cosmic surprises, including galaxies that might have assembled earlier than previously thought. ..
NASA’s new JWST space telescope has revealed some cosmic surprises, including galaxies that might have assembled earlier than previously thought. ..
A growing catalog of huge but dim “ultra-diffuse” galaxies is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution. ..
Telescopes around the world are capturing photons from the blast, and researchers anticipate exciting discoveries ahead. ..
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects. ..
Supermassive black holes are engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of our galaxy and its central hole don’t quite match expectations. ..
Researchers compiled data from several telescopes to show that explosive stellar death can generate some of the fastest particles in the universe. ..
New data from the ESA’s probe, now eight years into its mission, adds significant detail to its portrait of nearly 2 billion objects in the Milky Way. ..
You can definitely use the stars as your guide. But let’s check whether a scene from the Disney+ live action series would work in the real world. ..
The discovery that short peptides can form spontaneously on cosmic dust hints at more of a role for them in the origin of life, on Earth or elsewhere. ..
Astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang. They saw nothing. ..