Articles for tag: Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, Exoplanet discoveries

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7 Scientific Breakthroughs That Are Changing Our Understanding of the Cosmos

Suhail Ahmed

  The universe keeps refusing to behave the way we expect, and that’s exactly what makes this moment in astronomy so electric. In just the past few years, a wave of discoveries has forced scientists to redraw cosmic timelines, rethink how galaxies form, and even question whether our cherished “standard model” of cosmology is the ...

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Did James Webb Spot Ghosts in Space? New Simulations Suggest These Mysterious ‘Rogue’ Objects May Not Exist

Jan Otte

Astronomers were confused when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first saw strange, free-floating pairs of Jupiter-sized objects in 2023. These strange cosmic objects, called “JuMBOs” (Jupiter-mass binary objects), seemed to go against the usual ideas about how planets form because they didn’t have a parent star and were drifting through space in tight gravitational ...