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Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoNearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star...
Astronomers detect evidence of possible asteroid collisions in ‘teenage’ solar system
Courthouse News Service· 1 day agoThe lead scientist on the study, John Hopkins astronomer Christine Chen, said she and her team made...
Youthful galaxy in the early universe was a heavy metal rebel
SPACE.com· 1 day agoThe most distant carbon ever seen has been discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in a galaxy that we see as it existed just 350 million years after the Big Bang. The detection ...
7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem
LiveScience· 22 hours agoA team of astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres — artificial constructs designed by aliens to leech energy from stars.
Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Ars Technica· 2 hours agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 1 day agoastronomers are able to peer back in time and look at some of the oldest stars and galaxies. Between...
Earliest, most distant galaxy discovered with James Webb Space Telescope
UC Newsroom· 5 days agoAn international team of astronomers today announced the discovery using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed ...
Mysterious Origins: Polarized Light Transforms Our Understanding of Fast Radio Bursts
SciTechDaily· 4 hours agoThis finding contrasts with earlier studies which suggested that repeating FRBs come from highly...
James Webb Space Telescope spots asteroid collision in neighboring star system
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoThis star system is known for its relative youth; it's just around 20 to 25 million years old, which...
Webb Is a Supernova Discovery Machine: 10x More Supernovae in Early Universe
SciTechDaily· 9 hours agoNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is proving to excel as a supernova hunter! Thanks to its extreme...