An international scientific team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in Spain, has discovered two Earth-mass planets in orbit around the star…
Never-before-seen galaxies glow in a new image by James Webb
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured never-before-seen galaxies that look like dazzling diamonds in the blackness of space. The image transports viewers 13.5…
James Webb detects spiral galaxies from the ‘cosmic noon’ period of the early universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is helping scientists unravel the mystery of spiral galaxies and has captured a detailed image of several belonging to…
Astronomers discover two planets that could be “worlds of water”
These are two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. A team led by astronomers…
Let’s talk about TON 618, possibly the largest object in the entire known universe
The universe houses big, very big things. Really big. There are stars thousands of times larger than the Sun, capable of causing supernovae that shake…
James Webb Telescope breaks record for most distant galaxies ever found
Foto: NASA GSFC. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the most distant galaxies ever confirmed, which formed some 325 million years after the…
Telescope detects a ghost light surrounding the Solar System
Tens of thousands of measurements on 200,000 archival images were analyzed. The Hubble telescope has detected, after the analysis of tens of thousands of measurements…
A star collides with a black hole detected by astronomers
Detected in December 2021, an incredible space explosion has finally been identified by the astronomers in charge of its study. Where she comes from ?…
A Ghostly Glow of Light Surrounds the Solar System and No One Can Explain It
A new analysis of the Hubble data has confirmed it: there is plenty of light in the space around the Solar System. Not much extra…
Rare Earth Elements Are Created During Neutron Star Mergers, Study Confirms
Before now, scientists thought that rare earth elements existed based on how bright a kilonova became over time, not on their spectral properties. “This is…