Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...
Astronomers combing through old image data have found evidence of a Star Wars-style planet orbiting two suns that previous ...
Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...
Isaac Newton lounging beneath an apple tree, suddenly getting bonked on the head by falling fruit, and boom—gravity is ...
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What is dark matter

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists conjectured that the missing mass in the universe was made up of small ...
Scientists themselves might benefit from reading Scientific American! In the July/August 2025 issue, there are two Advances ...
A distant neutron star unexpectedly reawakened, unleashing a powerful X-ray surge that may reveal how the universe’s most extreme stars feed.
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Fraunhofer IAF and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have provided 145 high-performance low-noise amplifiers for ...
Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...
Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...
For a species that relies so heavily on interacting with one another, it’s kind of funny and a little frustrating that ...