NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at ...
This Asteroid Had a 3 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth and Now It’s Zero
For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...
A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away
The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...
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Raging winds and hidden metals: The wild weather of a distant exoplanet
Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...
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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected
The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...
From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are ...
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Breakthrough in Astronomy: First Flat Telescope Lens Captures Color and Distant Starlight
For centuries, telescopes have relied oncurved glass lenses to bend light and bring the cosmos into focus. While effective, ...
33,000 km/h Winds? Scientists Just Found the Fastest Jetstream on an Alien World
A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...