This composite radio and optical image provided by researchers in May 2024 shows IRAS 23077, center, a planet-forming disk, ...
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offering the basic building blocks needed for the formation of planets. Now, astronomers have stumbled ...
An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang. These results ...
An international team of astronomers, including CfA scientists, used JWST to find a record-breaking galaxy observed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. Cambridge, MA--An international team ...
"We've all grown up with the Sun in the sky, and so to think of a planet just drifting throughout space with no star on their horizon is fascinating.""We've all grown up with the Sun in the sky, and ...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has revealed some of the saddest parts of our predominantly dark universe. As the agency explains in a press release, its dark matter-hunting deep ...
Using ESA's Gaia satellite and the MMT Observatory, astronomers have investigated a peculiar stream of stars in our galaxy named Theia 456. Results of the study, published May 21 on the pre-print ...