Scientists from the University of Warwick have helped discover a new habitable Earth-sized planet– only a short 40 light years away. In this artist’s concept, Gliese 12 b is shown…
Category: Astronomy
Shocked quartz reveals evidence of historical cosmic airburst
Shocked quartz and amorphous silica The researchers are particularly interested in the presence of shocked quartz, indicated by a pattern of lines, called lamellae, that shows stress great enough to…
Webb captures star clusters in Cosmic Gems arc
An international team of astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the Universe was 460 million years old. This is the first…
With a new, incredibly precise instrument, researchers narrow search for dark energy
Dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate — was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new…
Telltale greenhouse gases could signal alien activity
If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we could tell. A new UC Riverside study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would be giveaways…
Frosty volcanoes discovered in Mars’s tropics
The frost sits atop the Tharsis volcanoes: the tallest volcanoes not only on Mars but in the Solar System. It was first seen by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), and…
Can’t stop won’t stop: Solar Orbiter shows the Sun raging on
The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for the beautiful auroras earlier in May was still alive and kicking when it rotated away from Earth’s view. Watching from the other side of…
First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has captured a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly. In this stunning image of the Serpens…
A black hole of inexplicable mass
The black hole already weighed a billion solar masses when the universe was still in its infancy. The James Webb Space Telescope observed a galaxy in a young universe stage.…
This impossibly massive black hole wasn’t very hungry during the dawn of time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that seems to be impossibly massive. The confusion comes from the fact that…
