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Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have found complex organic molecules—carbon-based compounds that form ...
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A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...
Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...
There are now over 30 movies in the MCU. That means a lot of comic book costumes. With the franchise having adapted so many ...
The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...
YouTube stars “The McCartys” are expanding their universe. Apart from the Spooky Special, their first live interactive show – “which illustrated their ability to do a half-hour episode,” said ...
Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...
On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...
A team of astronomers claims it has observed the birth of an unusual cosmic object. In an observation of a gamma-ray captured in 2023, they believe they have detected a signal that is comparable to ...