A view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellte. Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO and ...

The JWST has detected more active black holes than expected, casting doubt on their prevalence in the early universe.

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One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for more than a month as ...

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Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of ...

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The idea uses a "starshade" to let astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets, even with existing ground-based telescopes.