Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their neighbors stay strangely subdued. The latest generation of supercomputer ...

To help astronomers understand what they are seeing, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have ...

Of all the discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope, the multitude of Little Red Dots it has observed is among the most enigmatic. Now, simulations using the Japanese Supercomputer ATERUI III ...

Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...

New MEGATRON simulations connect the first stars and dwarf galaxies, showing how ancient explosions may explain the iron patterns astronomers observe today.

As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller ...

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When researchers glimpsed the first images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), humanity’s largest and most powerful space telescope, they noticed something peculiar. A large number of ...

Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have temporarily put the brakes on rapid warming and ice melting in Greenland. Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have temporarily put the brakes on rapid ...

Some of the strangest objects uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope may represent a fleeting stage in the birth of enormous black holes. Known as Little Red Dots, the compact objects appear ...