As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

"To know, is to know that you know nothing," said Socrates, the famed ancient Greek philosopher. And while we know a LOT thanks to science, there's still so much that we don't know. These mysteries ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

The purpose of this work is to analyze the capabilities of space-vector pulse-width modulation when controlling a 5-phase high-voltage cascade frequency converter in normal mode and several types of ...

Very massive stars expel their outer layers through powerful stellar wind Star R136a1 may form via a single origin or through a dramatic stellar Intense stellar winds reduce the final mass, forming ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous Event seen above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the Desert Southwest earlier in ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this transformation, they may vomit out more stellar material than we knew.

While the new study marks the first time the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new exoplanet through direct imaging, the observatory confirmed an earlier discovery of a potential ...

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