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Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies

Jonathan O'Callaghan

Astronomy

NASA’s Plan to Make JWST Data Immediately Available Will Hurt Astronomy

Jason Wright | Opinion

Astronomy

Milky Way Census Shows Stars Take Varied Paths

Clara Moskowitz and Nadieh Bremer

Construction of World’s Largest Radio Observatory Is Finally Under Way

Two giant telescopes—one in Australia, the other in South Africa—will comprise the supersensitive Square Kilometer Array

Sarah Wild and Nature magazine

Cosmology

Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies

Jonathan O'Callaghan

Astronomy

NASA’s Plan to Make JWST Data Immediately Available Will Hurt Astronomy

Jason Wright | Opinion

Astronomy

Milky Way Census Shows Stars Take Varied Paths

Clara Moskowitz and Nadieh Bremer

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

Are the James Webb Space Telescope’s Pictures ‘Real’?

Jen Christiansen and Clara Moskowitz

Astronomy

On December 7 the Moon Will Photobomb Mars

Phil Plait | Opinion

Astronomy

Is Our Universe a Hologram? Physicists Debate Famous Idea on Its 25th Anniversary

Anil Ananthaswamy

Aerospace

Space Elevators Are Less Sci-Fi Than You Think

Stephen Cohen | Opinion

Astronomy

Satellite Constellations Could Harm the Environment, New Watchdog Report Says

Jonathan O'Callaghan

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The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Heart Has Been Revealed

The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime...

Particle Physics

God, Dark Matter and Falling Cats: A Conversation with 2022 Templeton Prize Winner Frank Wilczek

The physics Nobelist and author has not exactly found religion—but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped looking

The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

Seth Fletcher, Jason Drakeford, Tulika Bose and Jeffery DelViscio

How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy’s Black Hole

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

Seth Fletcher, Tulika Bose and Jeffery DelViscio

New Record-Breaking Simulation Sheds Light on ‘Cosmic Dawn’

THESAN—the largest, most detailed computer model of the universe’s first billion years yet made—is helping set expectations for observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope...

Charles Q. Choi

Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web

Data from the CHIME radio observatory are a milestone in the quest to discover the hidden origins of universal structure

Special Report

The James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope

The most powerful observatory ever made promises to produce some of the most incredible discoveries of our lifetime and beyond

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What Is the Black Hole Information Paradox? A Primer

Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside.

August 16, 2022

Astronomy

See the Oldest View of Our Known Universe, Just Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

July 11, 2022

Black Holes

The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This

May 12, 2022

Space & Physics

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Decoded: What Are Black Holes?

May 25, 2021

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Experience Seven Minutes of Terror in New Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Video

February 22, 2021

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