New Map of Dark Matter Validates Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Scientists using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have made a detailed map of dark matter’s distribution across a quarter of the sky. First Full-Color Images From Webb…
New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or…
See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus Hubble
About 340 years ago, a brilliant light appeared in Earth’s night sky—a distant star had died in an enormous explosion. That light, which we now know is from the supernova…
Physicists Recreate Classic ‘Double-Slit’ Experiment Using Time Instead of Space
A team of physicists has recreated a classic experiment in particle physics with a dimensional twist, by performing it in time instead of just space. In the process, they showcased…
Bent Light in Deep Space Reveals One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever Detected
Holy smokes. A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing (checks notes) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun. That’s more than seven times the size of…
Newest Webb Image Is a Stunning View of a Star’s Penultimate Stage
The Webb Space Telescope has produced a stupendous view of a Wolf-Rayet star, an extraordinarily bright object in the sky that (you may want to sit down) will soon die.…
Suck It, Saturn: Jupiter Now Officially Has Most Moons in the Solar System
Jupiter, the reigning moon king.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Jupiter is a superstar in our solar system. It’s the biggest, it’s wonderfully gassy, and it now has the most documented moons, clocking in…
Webb Finds the ‘Deepest, Coldest Ices to Date’ in Distant Molecular Cloud
The Webb telescope team has detected water ice and frozen complex molecules in a molecular cloud about 630 light-years from Earth. By the scientists’ measure, the frigid findings are the…