NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status...
For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed...
In a new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Prof. Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian...
In a new study, planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick...
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, which emerge in extreme astrophysical environments—like the roiling environments near black holes and neutron stars—have far...
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the...
Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky...
Since 2018 the Zwicky Transient Facility, an international astronomical collaboration based at the Palomar Observatory in California, has scanned the...
The first dark comet—a celestial object that looks like an asteroid but moves through space like a comet—was reported less...
We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in...
‘We live in a universe that is just right for us’: Study proposes a test for the Anthropic Principle
The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in...
Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet’s surface,...
