On Jan. 28, 2026, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had spotted its furthest detectable galaxy to date. The announcement marks the closest astronomers have come to studying the early origins of our universe, showing it as it appears just 280 million years after the Big Bang.
When NASA’s Artemis II mission embarks on a 10-day journey around the moon, the crew may glimpse features on the lunar surface that no other human has seen with the naked eye. As the astronauts fly by the mysterious lunar far side, which always faces away from Earth, they will view a part of the
A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a “hell heron” that waded through shallower waters. The fossil was unearthed by a team of around 20 researchers in the central Sahara region of Niger, offering critical clues to how the giant
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array , astronomers have investigated 70 dusty, star-forming galaxies at the very edge of the universe. These galaxies, seen as they were less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang, could change everything we know about cosmic evolution. It seems these galaxies were
LLANO, Calif. (KABC) — A 29-year-old Llano man is in custody, charged with killing a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives say 67-year-old Carl Grillmair was found shot to death on the porch of his home in rural Llano. Deputies had arrested Freddy Snyder
Scientists have long suspected that active supermassive black holes can kill their own host galaxies, but new research suggests these cosmic titans are more like serial killers that can extend their murderous rampage across many light-years and destroy neighboring galaxies, too. For scientists, “death” for a galaxy means the curtailing of star formation. Supermassive black
Earlier this month, Coastal Connections, Inc. (CCI) took in a hard-shelled sea creature with an unusually fluffy coat. Typically, the sea turtles they save and rehabilitate from around Vero Beach, Florida, have glistening shells and calloused skin. But this poor guy was different. He was covered in “hair” from head to tail. Coastal Connections, Inc.
The Moon passed directly between the Sun and Earth on 17 February 2026, creating an annular solar eclipse. Because the Moon was at a more distant point along its elliptical orbit around Earth, it didn’t entirely cover the Sun and left a ‘ring of fire’. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-2 satellite captured this ring
Physicists have made a monumental discovery that sheds light on the early moments of the universe. By recreating conditions resembling the first milliseconds after the Big Bang, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have uncovered evidence of the behavior of quark-gluon plasma. Published in Physics Letters B, this study delves into how the universe’s
We assume that objects are more fundamental than the relationships between those objects. However, philosopher George Webster argues that quantum mechanics upends this common-sense picture. In the quantum world, relations like symmetry are more real than the particles themselves. But neither our everyday language, nor the language of logic favored by philosophers, can make sense