How the James Webb telescope is changing astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was a dream come true when an Ariane 5 rocket launched from French Guiana…
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Signs of Monster Stars 10,000 Times Our Sun’s Mass Found at The Dawn of Time
What the first stars were like is a mystery. When we look back into the early Universe’s dim depths,…
Scientists Find a Way to Harvest Clean Energy From Nothing But Air
Engineers have accomplished a miraculous feat. Continuous energy harvesting from humid air is possible with almost any material. It’s not…
What is dark matter? This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher
To all, Each week in 2023, Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher will bring you the latest and greatest in astronomy,…
Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after three years of upgrades
Gravitational waves are microscopic ripples in spacetime that flow throughout the universe, and for the first time in three…
Then and now: 70 years of Everest
Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa of Nepal reached the peak of Everest for the first time…
Meet the scientist (sort of) spending a year on Mars
For Canadian biologist Kelly Haston, spending a year training to survive on Mars wasn’t exactly a childhood dream. The 52-year-old…
This Weekend A Nearby Supernova Is Visible Even With A Small Telescope
Now could be a great time to have a look at a well-known galaxy in Ursa Major if you…
Stephen Hawking’s last collaborator on physicist’s final theory
Thomas Hertog, a young Belgian researcher, and Stephen Hawking, a famed British theoretical physicist, hit it off from the…
Quantum matter breakthrough: Tuning density waves
Crystalline structures, or “density waves,” have been created in an atomic gas in a novel way by EPFL researchers. One…