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Quantum computers can’t teleport things—yet
Last November, a group of physicists claimed they’d simulated a wormhole for the first time inside Google’s Sycamore quantum computer....
A newly spotted black hole keeps munching on a star the size of our sun
Just in time for spooky season, astronomers have detected a dark and hungry space monster. The newly spotted black hole named Swift J0230...
Astronomers detect a distant galaxy’s magnetic field for the first time
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy that...
See the stunning Supernova 1987A in a whole new light
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken some new images of a star that exploded during the Reagan Administration. The space...
The Whirlpool Galaxy’s buff, spiral arms grab JWST’s attention
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stellar new image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (aka M51 or NGC 5194), a grand-design spiral...
Meet the first 4 astronauts of the ‘Artemis Generation’
Years after Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan returned from NASA’s last crewed mission to the moon, he still felt the massive weight of...
How AI can make galactic telescope images ‘sharper’
Even the most advanced ground-based telescopes struggle with nearsighted vision issues. Often this isn’t through any fault of their own,...
When two stars orbit each other, gravity gets weird
The idea of gravity as we know it has been around for a long time. More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton first shared his theory of...
The 100 greatest innovations of 2022
On a cloudy Christmas morning last year, a rocket carrying the most powerful space telescope ever built blasted off from a launchpad in...
Watch 17 years of an exoplanet’s journey in only 10 seconds
While it takes the Earth 365 days to revolve around our star (aka the sun), the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b takes 23.6 Earth years to orbit...
