Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century
Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun tracking the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the early […]
Space
JWST spots the first known ‘steam world’
This exoplanet’s atmosphere is going full steam ahead. A planet beyond our solar system called GJ 9827d has an atmosphere
Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by
Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the
The cataclysmic origin of most of Earth’s meteorites has been found
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be traced back to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and
A distant quasar’s black hole is surprisingly large for its galaxy
The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical
The spiky filaments of a zombie star shed light on a 12th-century supernova
About 7,500 light years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tentacles of hot sulfur. No one knows
A cosmic census triples the known number of black holes in dwarf galaxies
A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to inhabit miniature