It’s not every day that police storm through the doors of a scientific session and eject half the audience. But that’s what happened on Friday at...
Wanda Díaz-Merced is probably the world’s best-known BVI astronomer. But her career illustrates the magnitude of the challenges. She gradually lost her eyesight in her adolescence...
But the speed at which JWST has made discoveries is due to more than its intrinsic capabilities. Astronomers prepared for years for the observations it would...
One of those observations was a detailed study of the atmosphere of a gas giant planet 1,000 light-years from Earth called WASP-96 b. By watching the...
“It is a new window into the history of our universe,” President Biden said. “Today we’re getting a glimpse of the first light to shine through...
Leah Romero/Everett/NEON/Lifetime/Getty The great irony of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, was simple: She was as much a creator of media as she was its...
The DES is an effort to image as many galaxies as possible as a proxy for mapping out dark matter, which is possible because dark matter’s...
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