14+ hour, 17+ min ago   (575+ words) What happens to water when the usual rules no longer seem to apply? Scientists have recreated extraordinary conditions in the lab, uncovering a state of matter that could be hiding deep inside distant planets. Scientists have created a bizarre type…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (635+ words) A new AI-powered reconstruction method has transformed radio observations into a continuous video, revealing unexpected motion inside a distant black hole jet. For decades, astronomers have relied on Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to study the enormous jets launched by…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (775+ words) New gravitational wave observatories could detect ancient black hole mergers and reveal how the first stars shaped the early universe. New generations of gravitational wave detectors could soon detect the hidden remnants of the universe’s first stars, according to a…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (836+ words) This article is based on reporting from Space.com about NASA’s Roman Space Telescope, its advanced coronagraph technology and its role in future exoplanet direct imaging research. The challenge is enormous because stars are millions or even billions of times…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (643+ words) Astronomers have uncovered new evidence about the frozen birthplace of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The results indicate that the object likely developed in temperatures below -240°C (-400°F), suggesting a birthplace located in the distant frozen outskirts of another star system. Such…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (618+ words) Using a next-generation telescope, astronomers investigated two distant sources that had puzzled researchers and found evidence pointing to a much more complex story. The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that two mysterious objects from the early universe were not…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (231+ words) Astronomers have reconstructed a massive protostellar encounter that could reveal an unexpected route to building close binary stars. Astronomers have reconstructed the turbulent assembly of two massive young stars, finding evidence that they may have formed separately before a close…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (442+ words) A massive space release has arrived after decades of work, giving humanity a new window into the universe’s unexplored corners. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey started in 2000 as a project focused on mapping the Northern Hemisphere using the 2.5-meter Sloan…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (671+ words) NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes have revealed that tiny objects beyond Neptune may preserve the earliest history of planet formation. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that some of the smallest objects beyond Neptune still…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (522+ words) This strange cosmic structure looks like a giant eye in space, but astronomers discovered that the Helix Nebula is actually a massive cylinder of glowing gas pointing toward Earth. A new portrait of the Helix Nebula offers one of the…...