Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...
Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever ...
Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...
Jupiter has had its length and breadth measured again, and it turns out the giant planet is skinnier and shorter than ...
The first disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field caused by high solar activity will begin on February 5. However, ...
Astronomers in the United Arab Emirates have issued important guidance indicating when exactly Ramadan is likely to begin.
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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text
A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...
On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy, which received designation ...
A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...
Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...
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