Space

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it’s shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies. Recently, an international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover a bright, young galaxy in the early universe. Although it’s not the earliest galaxy ever found, it is among the first generation of large galaxies to appear after the Big…

The headline says it all: The list of our moon’s craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — which operates visual equipment on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) — announced the discovery of a never-before-seen dent in Earth’s natural satellite. It appears to be about 72 feet (22 meters) in diameter, probably…

New research suggests future images of black holes could be precise enough to allow scientists to determine if these objects are accurately described by Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity — or if they are best modeled by alternative theories. Such black hole research is possible due to breakthroughs in black hole imaging pioneered by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)…

With solar activity likely to remain elevated for the next couple of years, more powerful geomagnetic storm events are possible. The northern lights may grab the headlines, but it’s the invisible GPS turbulence that can disrupt our technological world and determine the fate of your next peanut butter sandwich. Charged particles hurled toward Earth from the sun can trigger geomagnetic storms…