After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel...

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The impact of a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos last year changed the asteroid’s orbital...

“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It...

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IntroductionThe cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...

The past decade has seen awe-inspiring breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics. From the first detection of gravitational waves, to the first...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made...