When it comes to the first galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to understand the formation of those
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Titan’s deep lakes more Earth-like than previously thought
If you’re planning to go boating on Saturn’s moon Titan, bring your lengthier anchor cables. Based on radar data returned
Continue readingTESS finds its first Earth-sized planet
A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm
Continue readingHubble peers at cosmic blue bauble
Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Messier 3, is commonly
Continue readingLife May Be Evolving on the Closest Alien Planet to Earth
A few decades ago, we didn’t know if there were any planets outside our solar system. Thanks to advances in
Continue readingThe First-Ever Close-Up of a Black Hole
You’re looking at the brand-new, first-ever close-up picture of a black hole. This image of the black hole M87 at
Continue readingAstronomers find evidence of a planet with a mass almost 13 times that of Jupiter
In the past three decades, almost 4,000 planet-like objects have been discovered orbiting isolated stars outside the solar system (exoplanets).
Continue readingNow We Know That Dark Matter Isn’t Primordial Black Holes
For over fifty years, scientists have theorized that roughly 85% of matter in the Universe’s is made up of a
Continue readingTwo Unusual Galaxies Shake Up the Dark Matter Debate, Again
When it comes to the nature of dark matter, astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of
Continue readingThe Sun’s magnetic field might be 10 times stronger than we thought
A new study by Queen’s University Belfast and Aberystwyth University indicates that the Sun’s magnetic field is 10 times more
Continue reading4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole
We’re about to see the first close-up of a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of eight radio
Continue readingTwo new planets discovered using artificial intelligence
Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two
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