Artist’s impression of the bright core region of a quasar, an active galaxy. The supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by a bright disk of gas and dust. The dust component further away can obscure the view of the interior and shines mainly in the mid-infrared range, light that can be analyzed by … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Early analysis of a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu suggests the space rock may have had an unexpectedly watery past, possibly even splitting off from an ancient ocean planet. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests the space rock may have had an unexpected watery past. The rock may even have split off from an ancient ocean … Read more
What you need to know Xbox Cloud Gaming is a $15-per-month service bundled with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which lets you stream hundreds of games to mobile, PC, and the web. To get Xbox Cloud Gaming on a TV, you’ll currently need a connected Xbox console (which can run games natively anyway), or own an … Read more
New findings from the Gaia Space Telescope indicate that the Milky Way cosmically cannibalized a small galaxy not so long ago. In fact, the last major collision between our galaxy and another galaxy appears to have occurred billions years later than previously suspected. It has long been believed that the Milky Way grew through a … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found new evidence that the early universe was a much more complex place than we thought. This time it has detected the signature of carbon atoms present in a galaxy that formed just 350 million years after the Big Bang – one of the earliest galaxies ever observed. … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Visualization of a ‘wrinkled’ halo of stars around the Milky Way. Credit: Halo Stars: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar × close to Visualization of a ‘wrinkled’ halo of stars around the … Read more