From Haryana judoka to Harvard scientist on new US council scouting alien life

Group set up by Harvard professor Avi Loeb to advise White House, Pentagon, FBI and American intelligence community on ...
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Astronomers using Keck Observatory find a wave of ancient quasars from the dawn of the universe

A Wave of Ancient Quasars Discovered from the Dawn of the Universe. VC: W. M. Keck Observatory This artist’s impression shows ...
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Euclid uncovers 31 ancient quasars, revealing a hidden population from the dawn of the universe

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has identified 31 ancient quasars, including the two earliest ever ...
University of Surrey

Astrophysicists show how the world’s darkest coating could protect the night sky from satellite light pollution

A satellite coating made from one of the world's darkest materials could help tackle a growing threat to astronomy, according ...
IFLScience

Scientists Found An Enormous Structure In Space That Shouldn't Exist

T he cosmological principle states that, on the largest scales, the universe is uniform and isotropic. In other words, it ...

XMM-Newton gamma-ray detection shows the Milky Way is bigger than previously thought

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...
ZME Science

The Sun’s Atmosphere May Be Feeding on Dust

The Sun’s outer atmosphere may have a dust problem—and that dust might be heating it up. A new study suggests that tiny charged grains near the Sun can change how energy moves through the corona, the ...

Mission launched to save falling Swift space telescope

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.
IFLScience

NASA's TESS Just Managed Something No One Thought It Could: Spotting A Planet Warping Spacetime

TESS uses the transit method. When a planet passes in front of its stars, it dims the starlight by a small fraction. If this dimming repeats at regular intervals, you have a likel ...