How does star-formation, occurring in small regions within galaxies, affect the entire host galaxy that contains it? JWST holds the answers.
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In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
In 1987, the closest supernova directly observed in nearly 400 years occurred. Will a pulsar arise from those ashes? JWST offers clues.
Could Russia’s plan actually destroy demand for natural gas?
This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.
Our model of the Universe, dominated by dark matter and dark energy, explains almost everything we see. Almost. Here’s what remains.
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.
Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.
Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein’s mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here’s why it had to be there.
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
When we prepare for our plans to go wrong, we build the foundations for lasting profit.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.
Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.