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Adi Foord is co-leading a research project designed to further understanding of how a rare type of black hole forms and changes over time. The project, recently funded by the NSF, also creates prime o...

Adi Foord is co-leading a research project designed to further understanding of how a rare type of black hole forms and changes over time. The project, recently funded by the NSF, also creates prime o...

Since it launched in December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it actually work? A...

Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world.

The James Webb Space Telescope has 2 powerful instruments that see light the human eye can’t.

The James Webb Space Telescope has 2 powerful instruments that see light the human eye can’t.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing its first images on 23 June, showing us galaxies as we’ve never seen them before. Here’s how you can join a party to see those shots in full definition

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US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Chandra Discovery of a Candidate Hyperluminous X-Ray Source in MCG+11-11-032, Foord, Adi, Civano, Francesca, Comerford, Julia M., Elvis, Martin, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Liu, Tingting, Lusso, Elisabeta, ...

Happy anniversary to the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched on April 24, 1990