‘Messy’ galaxies in the early universe struggled to settle, Webb reveals
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just...
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New telescope opens window to southern sky
4MOST first-light field-of-view. Credit: AIP/Background: Harshwardhan Pathak/Telescope Live A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos,...
How a trick from radio astronomy could help astronomers find Earth-like planets
A photograph of a full-scale model of the James Webb Telescope. The seven hexagonal mirrors of JWST are clearly seen....
Dust from far side of the moon could reveal more about origin of water in our solar system
Representative backscattered electron images of the olivine porphyritic clasts in CE-6 lunar samples. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of...
TESS detects two new Jupiter-sized exoplanets orbiting dwarf stars
The phase-folded light curve for TOI-5916. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.11798 Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers from...
Brown dwarf with stormy atmosphere discovered orbiting red dwarf via three observation techniques
Fig. 1. Infrared image of the brown dwarf companion J1446B (marked by the arrow). The host star (J1446) is masked...
Giant magnetofossils suggest ancient ocean life had built-in ‘GPS’ and may shed light on Mars particles
Scanning electron microscopy of the giant spearhead magnetofossil (red arrow). Credit: Communications Earth and Environment (2025) Some ancient marine organisms...
How a nutrient spark turned Earth into an oxygen world
Illustration of the four-box biogeochemical model used in this work. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64194-4 A new study has...
Five different carbon-based compounds discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The JWST MIRI MRS spectrum of the massive protostar ST6 in the LMC. The gas-phase emission lines (shown in gray)...
Distant galaxy A1689-zD1 found to have unusually low dust-to-gas ratio
False-color JWST/NIRCam RGB image cutout (blue: F150W; green: F277W; red: F444W), overlaid with -158µm emission contours showing 3, 5, 7,...
