Tag: astronomy

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and ...

Next, they’ll use the spectrograph to try to find key molecules like oxygen or methane. How much they find of ...

In 2016, astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University published a bombshell paper claiming the discovery of a ...

James Webb led NASA in the 1950s and 60s, during the Cold War–era “Lavender Scare,” when government agencies often enforced ...

The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained. ...

Let's consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit around its sun ...

All eyes will be on the moon as the Artemis mission’s inaugural launch blasts toward our lunar neighbor in a ...

In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what we ...

Gamma rays from this supernova remnant have been seen by telescopes since 2007, but exceptionally energetic light wasn’t detected until ...