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July 2, 2025
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June 27, 2025 The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area of the full moon in one shot. Over the next ten years, this cosmic giant will scan the southern sky in ultra-HD, helping ...
May 22, 2025 Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our understanding of how barred spiral galaxies, ...
May 19, 2025 The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...
May 15, 2025 Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. Their mathematical models show that dark matter could ...
May 12, 2025 Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational ...
May 8, 2025 In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new paper posits that helium nuclei collide with ...
May 7, 2025 Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new ...
May 5, 2025 Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved ...
Apr. 29, 2025 Astrophysicists have discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected. The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud 'Eos,' ...
Apr. 16, 2025 A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest ...
Apr. 16, 2025 An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably mature structure, with a central old bulge, a ...
Apr. 10, 2025 Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it would 'effectively break current models of galaxy ...
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June 28, 2025 A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy ...
June 22, 2025 Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted over 13 billion years ago. These signals, particularly the elusive ...
June 19, 2025 Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could ...
June 16, 2025 A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes ...
June 13, 2025 Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed ...
June 12, 2025 Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way. The findings provide a rare ...
June 11, 2025 Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light ...
June 7, 2025 An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...
Apr. 3, 2025 Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its ...
Apr. 2, 2025 For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...
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Mar. 20, 2025 Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early ...
Mar. 20, 2025 The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument used millions of galaxies and quasars to build the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Combining their data with other experiments shows signs that the ...
Mar. 19, 2025 On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different ...
Mar. 12, 2025 New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic ...
Mar. 11, 2025 The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...
Mar. 10, 2025 Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of ...
Feb. 27, 2025 Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers ...
Feb. 20, 2025 Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment ...
Feb. 19, 2025 Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, ...
Feb. 14, 2025 Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on ...
Feb. 14, 2025 A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the ...
Feb. 13, 2025 Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying ...
Feb. 12, 2025 Scientists have just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding ...
Feb. 6, 2025 Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...
Feb. 4, 2025 Physicists have performed a groundbreaking simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the ...
Jan. 29, 2025 New research has combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe's evolutionary history and found hints that it may be less clumpy at certain points than previously thought. ...
Jan. 28, 2025 Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...
Jan. 27, 2025 Researchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme conditions. This groundbreaking work not only reveals gaps in our ...
Jan. 21, 2025 A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the ...
Jan. 17, 2025 Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show light being emitted from these millimeter-sized ...
Thursday, March 20, 2025
- Oxygen Discovered in Most Distant Known Galaxy
- New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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Friday, February 14, 2025
- Does Planetary Evolution Favor Human-Like Life? Study Ups Odds We're Not Alone
- 'Game Changing' Release of Type Ia Supernovae Data May Hold Key to the History of the Universe
Thursday, February 13, 2025
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- Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting Nearby Stars in Landmark Survey
- NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
- The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast to Fit Theories: Hubble Tension in Crisis
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
- Fresh, Direct Evidence for Tiny Drops of Quark-Gluon Plasma
- This Quasar May Have Helped Turn the Lights on for the Universe
- Three Tiny 'stellar-Ghost-Town' Galaxies Discovered
Monday, January 13, 2025
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- Particle Research Gets Closer to Answering Why We're Here
- Astronomers Witness the in Situ Spheroid Formation in Distant Submillimetre-Bright Galaxies
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- A Formula for Life? New Model Calculates Chances of Intelligent Beings in Our Universe and Beyond
- Astronomers' Theory of How Galaxies Formed May Be Upended
Monday, November 11, 2024
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- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- Evidence Mounts for Dark Energy from Black Holes
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
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- A Wobble from Mars Could Be Sign of Dark Matter
- More Black Holes Than Expected in the Early Universe
Monday, September 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
- Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology's Two Biggest Puzzles
- Huge Gamma-Ray Burst Collection 'rivals 250-Year-Old Messier Catalog'
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- Astrophysicists Use AI to Precisely Calculate Universe's 'settings'
- Early Galaxies Were Not Too Big for Their Britches After All
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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Monday, July 15, 2024
- JWST Unveils Stunning Ejecta and CO Structures in Cassiopeia A's Young Supernova
- Cosmic Wrestling Match
Friday, July 12, 2024
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- Scientists Develop 3D Printed Vacuum System That Aims to Trap Dark Matter
- Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
Thursday, June 13, 2024
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- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
- Scientists Spot More Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe