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James Webb telescope reveals 'cataclysmic' asteroid collision in nearby star system
LiveScience· 6 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found evidence of two giant asteroids slamming into each...
Unexpected Find: Webb Discovers Mystery Sulfur on Distant Planet
SciTechDaily· 10 hours agoGJ 3470 b is a gas dwarf with unexpected sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere. This discovery provides...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
SPACE.com· 4 days agoAstronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of...
New TMT team changes approach to get community support, but is it too late for the telescope?
Hawaii News Now· 4 days agoIt’s been five years since thousands of protesters blocked the start of construction of the Thirty...
The Milky Way's last major act of galactic cannibalism was surprisingly recent
SPACE.com· 7 days agoNew findings from the Gaia space telescope indicate the Milky Way may have cannibalized a small...
Kristin Fisher reports for “The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?”
CNN.com· 5 days agoThe Whole Story with Anderson Cooper returns with an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built and the discoveries it unlocked.
Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024 – Visionary of the Voyager Era
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoA giant in the fields of space physics and planetary astronomy, Stone spent six decades at Caltech,...
Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time
IFLScience· 3 days agoAt the heart of the galaxy OJ 287 is a supermassive black hole, like almost every other galaxy, but...
Lynn Conway, Computing Pioneer and Transgender Advocate, Dies at 86
New York Times· 2 days agoLynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling...
Webb Explores Cosmic Dawn: Witnessing the First Galaxies Feeding on Cold Gas
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoData from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show that there is a lot of cold, neutral gas in the...