Astronomy
Blazar’s brightness cycle confirmed by NASA’s Fermi mission
A two-year cycle in the gamma-ray brightness of a blazar, a galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, has been confirmed by 10 years of observations from NASA's Fermi...
Astronomy
More clues that Earth-like exoplanets are indeed Earth-like
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet 500 light-years...
Astronomy
ALMA hears birth cry of a massive baby star
Stars form from gas and dust floating in interstellar space. But, astronomers do not yet fully understand how...
Astronomy
Strange particles may travel faster than light
Nothing goes faster than the speed of light. At least, we didn't think so. New results from the...
Astronomy
New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability
Ultraviolet light from giant stellar flares can destroy a planet's habitability. New research from the University of North...
Astronomers find abundance of Milky Way–like galaxies in early universe, rewriting cosmic evolution theories
Galaxies from the early universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about...
Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching...
New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets
Life on a faraway planet -- if it's out there -- might not look anything like life on Earth. But there are only so...
Hidden ocean the source of carbon dioxide on Jupiter moon: Research
Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter's moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data indicated...
NASA team simulates a glimpse of our galaxy in gravitational waves
Astronomers using simulated data have produced a glimpse of the sky as it would appear in gravitational waves, cosmic ripples in space-time generated by...
Core of the most distant galaxy protocluster observed
The study of how individual stars are born and die in galaxies, how new stars are born from remnants of old stars, and how...