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Erini Lambrides picked up "A Brief History of Time" as a joke at her performing arts high school. That moment launched a journey from Brooklyn theater dreams to studying galaxies at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Skylar Grayson spent months going down wrong research paths during her astrophysics PhD, but her advisor taught her that detours are actually how science works. This May, she graduates with top honors from Arizona State University and heads to Canada to continue exploring the universe.
Scientists from Israel have measured invisible cosmic ray particles deep inside a distant dust cloud for the first time, opening a new window into understanding how stars are born. The breakthrough discovery using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope could transform modern astrophysics.
Scientists finally figured out why a neighboring galaxy has been spinning strangely for decades. A catastrophic collision with its larger sister galaxy millions of years ago left it reeling in a cosmic twist.
Scientists solved a cosmic mystery: some stars survive being ripped apart by supermassive black holes, returning for repeat encounters. The secret is how fast they were spinning before their first brush with destruction.
One of the world's leading astrophysicists says we're living through a golden age of cosmic discovery, thanks to powerful space telescopes and computing advances working together. Priyamvada Natarajan believes major breakthroughs in understanding black holes and dark matter are coming soon.
Three UC San Diego researchers studying climate, nuclear physics, and human health just earned one of science's highest honors. Their work is already protecting communities and advancing our understanding of life itself.
A girl who fell in love with the night sky grew up to study supermassive black holes trillions of kilometers from Earth. Dr. Jedidah Isler now researches some of the universe's most powerful objects, proving childhood dreams can reach across galaxies.
Scientists discovered a supermassive black hole from the early universe growing 13 times faster than physics should allow, challenging our understanding of how these cosmic giants form. The breakthrough could solve a major mystery about how black holes grew so massive so quickly after the Big Bang. ##
Astronomers have photographed a glowing cosmic highway linking galaxies from 12 billion years ago, revealing the hidden structure that fuels star formation across the universe. The breakthrough helps explain how galaxies grow and evolve over cosmic time.
Scientists just confirmed our home galaxy grew from a massive collision with another galaxy 12 billion years ago, revealing how the Milky Way became the cosmic neighborhood we know today. The discovery shows our galaxy has been growing by absorbing neighbors since nearly the beginning of time.
For the first time ever, researchers have recreated a rare cosmic reaction that forms one of the universe's rarest elements, bringing us closer to understanding where everything came from. The breakthrough cuts uncertainty in half but reveals we still have more to learn about exploding stars.
A breakthrough supercomputer simulation has revealed how cosmic chaos creates the universe's vast, organized magnetic fields. The discovery could transform our understanding of everything from black holes to solar storms.
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a galaxy that shouldn't exist by current theories: a massive, ancient galaxy with no rotation, formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This discovery could rewrite what we know about how galaxies form and evolve.
Researchers may have detected the first primordial black hole, mysterious objects formed in the first second after the Big Bang. The discovery could solve one of the universe's oldest mysteries.
For the first time ever, astronomers have measured the real-time power of jets blasting from a black hole, and the numbers are staggering. The breakthrough reveals these cosmic fountains pack the energy of 10,000 suns while racing through space at 355 million mph.
For 60 years, scientists theorized that the universe's biggest stars could explode so powerfully they vanish completely. New research using gravitational waves just proved they were right.
Astronomers discovered the first stellar stream outside our galaxy, offering a groundbreaking new tool to map the universe's invisible dark matter. The faint ribbon of ancient stars is helping scientists solve one of space's greatest mysteries.
Astronomers have captured the sharpest image ever of a cosmic filament, revealing the massive hidden highways that connect galaxies across the universe. The glowing strand stretches 3 million light-years and offers new insights into how galaxies form and grow.
Scientists discovered the universe's biggest black holes form through violent collisions in densely packed star clusters, not from dying stars alone. Gravitational wave detectors revealed two distinct black hole populations, solving a cosmic mystery about how these giants grow.
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