NASA’s Swift Observatory reentered Earth’s atmosphere over North Sumatra, Indonesia, ending nearly 22 years in orbit. NASA had decided in August to allow the return after the telescope descended too…
NASA’s Swift Observatory reentered Earth’s atmosphere over North Sumatra after nearly 22 years in orbit, far longer than its original two-year mission. It searched for gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, observed…
The 2023 discovery of supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel Galaxy gave astronomers a rare nearby example of a massive star’s death. The Las Cumbres Observatory’s robotic telescope network helped…
Researchers have identified a massive, ring-shaped structure of galaxies spanning 1.3 billion light-years in the distant universe. This discovery, known as the Big Ring, challenges the fundamental Cosmological Principle, which…
NASA scientists have deployed a deep learning model named ExoMiner to validate 301 new exoplanets from the Kepler mission data. The AI system operates on the Pleiades supercomputer, mimicking human…
Researchers at the University of Liège have identified WASP-193b, an exoplanet with an exceptionally low density comparable to cotton candy. This super-fluffy gas giant is significantly larger than Jupiter but…
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified five massive star clusters within a galaxy that existed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery, made possible…
Researchers using the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission data have discovered Gaia BH3, a stellar-mass black hole weighing 33 times more than the Sun. This discovery, located just 2,000 light-years…
NASA's Lucy mission discovered that the asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a complex binary system, featuring a smaller moonlet that is itself a contact binary. This unexpected finding provides new insights…
