In November last year, the scientific community was rocked by an extraordinary study. Opposing the widely … “Crisis averted? Universe’s expansion is accelerating after all, study says”
A quasar from the universe’s first 850 million years has started to look less like … “MIT astronomers detect oldest known flickering quasar from the cosmic dawn”
A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While … “Galaxy-killing wind may explain why giant galaxies died so early”
Primordial black holes are a theoretical class of objects that would have been formed in … “Exploding Primordial Black Holes Might Have Reshaped the Early Universe – And Created All Matter As We Know It”
Dark matter makes up most of the mass in the Universe, but it’s not evenly … “Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Validating a Violent Cosmic Collision Theory”
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. Visible with the unaided … “Our galactic neighbor is slowly coming apart”
The Great Attractor is a massive gravitational anomaly: an invisible, unimaginably colossal amount of mass in … “The constellation Norma is home to the Great Attractor”
Most planets in our solar system have magnetic fields. Earth’s magnetic field has played a crucial … “Strongest hint yet of exoplanet magnetic fields”
A faint glow of helium, hanging near one of the earliest known galaxies, may be … “Astronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big Bang”
NOIRLab released this spectacular new image of the Crystal Ball Nebula this month. The Gemini … “Meet the Crystal Ball Nebula”