Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth—an expert explains what we know
Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...
AI recognizes the mass of the most energetic particles of cosmic radiation
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex ...
Entire planetary system of four tiny exoplanets found orbiting the nearest single star to the sun
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
Greek Reporter10h
Meet the Greek Astronomer Behind the First-Ever Black Hole Image
Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...
What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built ...
You’ve heard of the Big Bang. Now astronomers have discovered the Big Wheel – here’s why it’s significant
Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...
New Scientist14h
Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang
The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...
AI Cracks a Cosmic Mystery, Revealing Hidden Bubbles in the Milky Way
A team of Japanese researchers has harnessed the power of AI to uncover hidden structures in our galaxy. Using deep learning models trained on space telescope data, they identified bubble-like ...
India Today on MSN7d
Venus is burning at 426°C in the night sky. It's so hot that it can melt lead
As Venus hurtles toward its inferior conjunction with the Sun on March 22, astronomers are capturing a rare glimpse of its ...
MLive14d
Michigan’s Vlad Goldin on reuniting with parents after nearly 5 years apart
“Our administration, our staff, put in a lot of man hours to figure out a way to help Vlad get his family here,” May said. Goldin said his parents had their visa appointment late last month ...
Daily Press15d
Cartoon: Vlad the Ventriloquist
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Does the city of Hampton need 2 public golf courses? Analysts pitch investing in just 1. Does the city of ...
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NASA telescope will study what put the bang in the big bang
said Phil Korngut, an astrophysicist at Caltech and the SPHEREx instrument scientist. The telescope will gather light from about 450 million galaxies and create a three-dimensional map of the ...