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Webb detects universe's most distant complex organic molecules

Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth - the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist.

June 5, 2023 Read more

Mysterious dashes revealed in Milky Way's center

Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole.

June 2, 2023 Read more

Quest for alien signals in the heart of the Milky Way takes off

If an alien civilization wanted to communicate with other civilizations throughout the Milky Way, the galaxy's core holds potential as a strategic site for a beacon.

May 30, 2023 Read more

Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn's moon Enceladus

Not only is this the first time such a water emission has been seen over such an expansive distance, but Webb is also giving scientists a direct look, for the first time, at how this emission feeds the water supply for the entire system of Saturn and its rings.

May 30, 2023 Read more

A telescope's last view

Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark.

May 30, 2023 Read more

'Light shining through a wall' experiment ALPS starts searching for dark matter

The world's most sensitive model-independent experiment to search for particularly light particles, of which dark matter might be composed, starts today in the form of the 'light shining through a wall' experiment ALPS II.

May 23, 2023 Read more

An X-ray look at the heart of powerful quasars

Researchers have observed the X-ray emission of the most luminous quasar seen in the last 9 billion years of cosmic history, known as SMSS J114447.77-430859.3, or J1144 for short. The new perspective sheds light on the inner workings of quasars and how they interact with their environment.

May 19, 2023 Read more

Rings of Quaoar

Astronomers discover a second 'impossible' ring around the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar

May 19, 2023 Read more

First observed radio waves from a type Ia supernova

For the first time, astronomers have observed radio waves emitted by a Type Ia supernova, a type of explosion originating from a white dwarf star. This provides important clues to understand how white dwarfs explode.

May 18, 2023 Read more

Massive neutron star has a strange heart

New research reveals the probable existence of a strange quark matter core in massive neutron stars. The study sheds new light on the equation of state of dense matter, bridging the gap between hadronic and quark matter states.

May 18, 2023 Read more

Astronomers found a likely volcano-covered terrestrial world outside the Solar System

Astronomersl have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet around a nearby small red dwarf star that appears to be carpeted with volcanoes.

May 17, 2023 Read more

Temperature of solar flares helps understand nature of solar plasma

A new study simulated dozens of solar flares and showed that analysis of the Lyman Continuum spectrum formed by hydrogen ionization and recombination can be used for diagnosis of the solar plasma.

May 16, 2023 Read more

Astronomers observe the first radiation belt seen outside of our solar system

High-resolution imaging of radio emissions from an ultracool dwarf show a double-lobed structure like the radiation belts of Jupiter.

May 15, 2023 Read more

Webb finds water, and a new mystery, in rare main belt comet

Using Webb's NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas - specifically water vapor - around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, indicating that water ice from the primordial solar system can be preserved in that region.

May 15, 2023 Read more

Astronomers discover twisted fields around mysterious fast radio burst

Learn about FRB 20190520B, the first continuously active repeating FRB, and its significant implications for the fields of astronomy and physics.

May 12, 2023 Read more

Astronomers reveal the largest cosmic explosion ever seen

The explosion is more than ten times brighter than any known supernova and three times brighter than the brightest tidal disruption event, where a star falls into a supermassive black hole.

May 12, 2023 Read more

Hidden supermassive black holes brought to life by galaxies on collision course

Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of energy when they are inside galaxies that are expected to collide with a neighbouring galaxy.

May 11, 2023 Read more

Researchers find new approach to explore earliest universe dynamics with gravitational waves

Researchers have discovered a new generic production mechanism of gravitational waves generated by a phenomenon known as oscillons, which can originate in many cosmological theories from the fragmentation into solitonic 'lumps' of the inflaton field that drove the early Universe's rapid expansion.

May 11, 2023 Read more