Using a cutting-edge spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found evidence that interstellar oxygen was far more abundant in many...

Dec 02, 2023 (Nanowerk News) It first appeared as a glowing blob from ground-based telescopes and then vanished completely in images from the Hubble Space...

Physics World Reports on a Scalable Quantum Processor Simulating Non-Equilibrium Phase TransitionsIn a groundbreaking development, researchers have successfully demonstrated a scalable quantum processor that...

IntroductionLate in the evening of October 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble sat at the eyepiece of the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, atop...

Observation of 'Alice rings' in a Bose-Einstein condensate reported in Physics WorldIn a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have reported the observation of 'Alice rings' in...

IntroductionCynthia Chiang always wanted to work with her hands. Although it may sound counterintuitive, it’s what led her to the fairly abstract field of...

IntroductionLast October, as the James Webb Space Telescope beamed down its first long exposures of the sky near the constellation Eridanus, astronomers began to...

The values of the fundamental physical constants – seemingly fine-tuned for the emergence of nuclear matter and ultimately life – might...

IntroductionYears before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference for astronomers specializing in...

The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear, dark backdrop. But this...

Astronomers Confirm the Faintest Galaxy Ever Seen: A Glimpse into Cosmic DawnIn a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of the faintest galaxy...

IntroductionLike a bright city in the middle of a barren desert, our galactic neighborhood is enveloped by a cosmic void — an enormous, almost...