Cosmic

After nearly 13.8 billion years of nonstop expansion, the universe could soon grind to a standstill, then slowly start to contract, new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests.In the…

The SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an…

In the vastness of space, there are plenty of places to hide. Astronomers recently caught a sneaky supermassive black hole hiding behind a cloud of cosmic dust at the center of a distant galaxy. Their discovery helps confirm predictions…

There are few bigger questions than how life first got started on Earth, but trying to put in the detective work almost 4 billion years after the event is understandably hard going for scientists. Now it looks as though we might have…

According to our current Cosmological models, the Universe began with a Big Bang roughly 13.8 billion years ago. During the earliest periods, the Universe was permeated by an opaque cloud of hot plasma, preventing atoms from forming.…

A new image of the Flame Nebula shows the interstellar cloud as we've never seen it before.A team of astronomers using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope has captured the star-forming region in radio wavelengths,…

Artist's impression of an evolving white dwarf (foreground) and millisecond pulsar (background) binary system. Using the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope on Cerro Pachón in…

A newborn star whizzing past another stellar youngster triggered a cosmic flare-up that began nearly a century ago and is still going strong today, researchers say. In late 1936, a dim star in the constellation Orion started to…

An image of a galaxy seen face-on in a simulation. It shows the distribution of gas over the galaxy (red is higher density and blue is lower density); the clumpiness of the gas is apparent. When cosmic ray transport is suppressed, the…

Protoplanetary disc. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have managed to link the properties of the inner planets of our solar system with our cosmic history: with the emergence of ring structures in the swirling disk of gas and dust in…