News

James Webb telescope discovers Zhúlóng, the Milky Way's long-lost 'twin' near the dawn of time
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...
Astronomers Discover Most Distant Milky Way-like Galaxy
"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...
EurekAlert!3d
NSF NOIRLab astronomer discovers oldest known spiral galaxy in the Universe
An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...
Scientific American23h
NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science
Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet – an astronomer explains why many are still skeptical
(THE CONVERSATION) A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence for an unexpected atmospheric gas. On Earth, ...
Astronomers believe the universe isn’t just expanding - it's spinning too
In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?
Scientific American1d
Strange Circles in the Sky Are Still Baffling Astronomers
Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...
It's time to build a space telescope interferometer—this could be the first step
The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...
Cosmic Castaways: Webb Unveils the Flame Nebula’s Smallest “Almost-Stars”
How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...
KTVX Salt Lake City on MSN1d
Astronomers discover possible signs of life on distant planet
Using data collected by NASA and the European Space Agency’s Webb Space Telescope, researchers detected evidence of compounds ...
Space.com on MSN2d
James Webb Space Telescope discovers most distant and earliest Milky Way 'twin' ever seen. Meet dragon-galaxy Zhúlóng (image)
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Live Science on MSN2d
James Webb telescope spots Milky Way's long-lost 'twin' — and it is 'fundamentally changing our view of the early universe'
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...