Catch up on some of the most exciting and impactful developments in science from this year, published on ASN and selected by our editors.
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Catch up on some of the most exciting and impactful developments in science from this year, published on ASN and selected by our editors.
The new James Webb Space Telescope will collect infrared light from distant corners of the cosmos, enabling scientists to see further than ever before.
TOI-2109b is the second hottest exoplanet discovered so far, with a year lasting just 16 hours.
Your “friendly neighborhood astrophysicist” Becky Smethurst is enthusiastically exploring the universe and educating us along the way.
New images confirm that the star was partially concealed by a cloud of dust, solving the mystery of the ‘Great Dimming’ of Betelgeuse.
Astronomers have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized exoplanet with a 24-day orbital period orbiting a nearby M dwarf star.
New image made using NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory hints at previously unknown interstellar energy source at the Milky Way center.
Chemical signatures give away the distance to the farthest galaxy, which experts say defines the very boundary of the observable universe.
Bright bursts of radio waves help astronomers locate a type of matter that researchers have been searching for for the past 30 years.
NASA and ophthalmologists using the the same technology to detect imperfections.