In a new study, an international team of scientists shows that the lack of carbon in an exoplanet’s atmosphere compared to other objects in the…
“James Webb” discovers six small galaxies within a giant ancient galaxy
A space observatory is named after him. James Webb made his one of the most important discoveries in astronomy in recent years. The largest ancient…
What the universe will look like after the Dark Ages end
A new analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided a unique glimpse into the end of the cosmic Dark Ages,…
How to create a black hole from nothing
Black holes were thought to be formed by the collapse of dead stars. But Webb telescope images of the early universe suggest a different path.…
Transformation of the universe: Secret quark nuclei exist in neutron stars
Deep within neutron stars, the densest objects in the modern universe, there is a possibility that a substance called cold quark matter exists. This assumption…
Notches on a stone disk called an ancient star map
Italian scientists investigated the arrangement of incisions in a stone disk discovered at the ancient site of Lupine Piccolo and concluded that the object could…
Breakthrough Listen found no artificial radio signals in 97 galaxies
Astronomers from the Breakthrough Listen Project surveyed trillions of stars in 97 galaxies and compiled the results of the largest survey of radio signals from…
Most distant high-energy active galaxy discovered
The LST-1 telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array “made” the first scientific discovery. Astronomers used telescopes to discover strong radiation from quasar OP 313, making…
New research shows the Small Magellanic Cloud is made up of two galaxies
An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has found evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is not one galaxy, but two galaxies one behind the…
There may be millions of invisible “mirror stars” in our galaxy.
An entire universe of “mirror” particles may exist within ourselves, and astronomers may know where to look first: into the mysterious hearts of supposed “mirror…