‘In the News’ Archives

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are making a growing contribution to astronomy. As … “Scouring TESS Data With AI Reveals A Hundred New Exoplanets”

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 Sun doesn’t spin at the same rate. Its equator takes 25 days to complete … “The Sun That Never Flips”

Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe was hot and dense, a plasma of quarks … “The Early Universe was Hot, Dense, and Soupy”

The oxygen in a galaxy does not sit still. It spreads, thins out, piles up, … “‘Space archaeologists’ use oxygen map to reconstruct a galaxy’s 12-billion-year past”

Here’s a question that sounds simple but has kept cosmologists arguing for decades – how … “The Answer is Written in the Stars”

Astronomers have used a collection of telescopes to peer through the gas and dust obscuring … “Astronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the Heart of the Milky Way”

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 … “Expanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universe”

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount … “Black hole-powered blazars may explain the highest-energy neutrino ever detected”

Black holes are the densest objects in the universe. When they collide, they unleash ripples in spacetime known to … “A surge of discoveries of gravitational waves”