1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (324+ words) The JWST looked back in time and saw 6 galaxies merging into one. At the heart of the assembly, a supermassive black hole is lurking. It all happened when the Universe was only about 1. 5 billion years old, and the red-shifted light…...

6+ hour, 14+ min ago  (104+ words) We've known for a long time that there are organic molecules on Mars. Rovers and landers keep turning them up wherever they look. But, "organic" simply means a molecule is made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms, not that it…...

16+ hour, 59+ min ago  (115+ words) You're the grillmaster at the annual family 4th of July BBQ and you're sweating bullets standing over the grill in the sweltering summer heat. You're trying to stay cool by pressing a cold beer can on your forehead, but to no…...

22+ hour ago  (272+ words) The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life, and new research suggests it lasted for millions of years longer than previously suspected. While previous research showed the buried hydrothermal…...

1+ day, 55+ min ago  (243+ words) Many of Earth's mass extinctions await clear explanations. We know an impact wiped out the dinosaurs, but what about the planet's other extinction events? New research says flybys of planetary mass objects could've been responsible....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (75+ words) Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a massive, star-forming galaxy. The team, led from "Leiden University, focused on REBELS-25, seen when the universe was only about 700 million years…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (212+ words) On 17 June at 09: 21 local time (13: 21 BST, 14: 21 CEST) Ariane 6 flight VA269 soared to orbit from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. 36 satellites for Amazon's Leo constellation were placed into their orbit just over an hour after liftoff " the eighth successful mission insertion in…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (74+ words) Astrophysicists have found what is likely the very first pair of sibling supernova remnants. One is the well-known Jellyfish Nebula, and the other was long thought to be hidden in the bright glare from the Jellyfish. The pair are connected…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (97+ words) It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper coming out singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational SGL (SGL). Partly, this is due to Dr. Slava Turyshev's astounding productivity in terms of pumping out…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (728+ words) A proposal to create a new network for monitoring cosmic threats to off-world infrastructure has won this year's Schweickart Prize, which recognizes bright ideas for planetary defense....