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Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...
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How weird is the Milky Way?
In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.
His past projects include the “Blade” trilogy, “Man of Steel” (2013), the Dark Knight trilogy, “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016), “Call of Duty: Black Ops 1 & 2” (2010, 2012), “Foundation” ...
Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.
The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...
The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...
The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...