Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...
As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...
X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...
Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.
Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, ...
Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...
Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...