New research suggests that some of the oldest black holes in the universe pass by our cosmic neighborhood at least once every decade, dragging planets…
Mars plane MAGGIE received first funding from NASA
Artistic depiction of the Martian aircraft MAGGIE (Mars Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer). Source: Ge-Cheng Zha The MAGGIE aircraft will fly through the Martian…
James Webb captures region H II in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken images of the H-II region of the N79 nebula, a cloud of hot plasma in the Large Magellanic…
Giant galactic structure discovered offering insight into the universe
Scientists from the University of Central Lancashire, UK, have spoken of a giant cosmic structure. Its size is so large that its very existence fundamentally…
Chinese scientists have succeeded in slowing the speed of light on a microchip to a record low and why is it necessary?
Slowing down light on microchips is a step toward a high-technology future. Chinese scientists at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, part of the Chinese…
Gravitational waves could tell us about the first minutes of the Universe’s existence
Astronomers regularly explore the universe using different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, there are problems with studying the universe this way. We can only…
A mysterious object has been discovered at the edge of the galaxy, but its properties are beyond human knowledge.
A group of astronomers from the University of Manchester have discovered an object at the edge of a galaxy that scientists thought would be difficult…
The material that filled the universe after the Big Bang is discovered in the core of a neutron star
An international group of physicists has concluded that there is an 80-90% chance that the most massive neutron stars have an ultra-dense, dispersed quark matter…
Astronomers identify 164 promising targets for HWO
Planning a large-scale astronomical mission is a long process. Part of this process is understanding what the mission calls for. A team of researchers from…
For the first time, astronomers have examined molecular clouds in which systems of two, three, and even five stars are forming.
Scientists have begun analyzing molecular cloud data collected by ALMA Radio Observatory. They then published their first results, an analysis of a large star-forming region.…