New findings about the moon’s history
The Chang'e-5 mission, China's pioneering project that returned to Earth with lunar samples for the first time since 1976, has provided scientists with invaluable...
Black holes or galaxies: Which came first?
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered some groundbreaking insights that could rewrite our understanding of the universe's earliest days.
According to a recent analysis,...
The early universe had small galaxies with oversized black holes
When doing the marketing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA and the other telescope contributors liked to point out how it would...
Hubble sees a bridge of stars connecting two galaxies
The poetic-minded among us like to point out how Nature is a dance. If they’re right, then galaxies sometimes form unwieldy pairs.
With the Hubble...
Could forests become ultrahigh energy neutrino detectors?
I really don’t know how to introduce this article. Neutrinos are elementary particles and are electrically neutral.
They are produced by numerous cosmological events.
Trees, well,...
Black holes are surprising builders of the universe
Once upon a time, at the very beginning of everything, the universe was a place of incredible creation and mystery.
New research has turned our...
How does the cosmic web drive galaxy evolution
Galaxies experience a long strange trip through the cosmic web as they grow and evolve.
It turns out that the neighborhoods they spend time in...
Dust ruins another way of measuring distance in the universe
Astronomers have many ways to measure the distance to galaxies billions of light years away, but most of them rely upon standard candles.
These are...
A black hole has cleared out its neighborhood
We can’t see them directly, but we know they’re there. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) likely dwell at the center of every large galaxy.
Their overwhelming...
Making space travel sustainable: a new approach to mining on the moon and Mars
Scientists are taking important steps towards a future where astronauts can extract essential materials directly from the dust of the moon and Mars.
This breakthrough...