The Universe's Most Extraordinary Construction Site
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Astronomers have discovered a extraordinary celestial construction site hiding behind a natural magnifying glass in space and what they've found is unlike anything seen before. A cluster of at least 11 galaxies, all building stars at a ferocious rate in th...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:39 +0000
The Stars That Lit Up the Early Milky Way
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Astronomers have used a special class of ancient, pulsating stars as celestial lighthouses to map the earliest chapter of our Galaxy's life and what they've found is rewriting what we thought we knew about how the Milky Way was born. By building the larges...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:04 +0000
Would Earth Still Be Habitable Without Us?
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Scientists have built a working model of Earth without any life on it and what they found might change how we search for aliens. By simulating 4.5 billion years of our planet's evolution minus every bacterium, plant, and creature that ever existed, they've...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:35 +0000
NASA Updates Artemis Program, Adding a Mission and Delaying Lunar Landing
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As part of a Golden Age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the agency is increasing its cadence of missions under the Artemis program to achieve the national objective of returning American astronauts to the Moon and establishing an en...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:55 +0000
Jupiter Is Smaller and Flatter Than Previously Thought
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has proudly boasted about this since time immemorial, with its scientific confirmation occurring by Galileo Galilei in 1610. It was later found that Jupiter has a bulging equator caused by its rapid rot...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:29 +0000
The LOFAR Telescope Produces the Most Detailed Radio Map of the Universe Ever
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The radio telescope LOFAR, with a major contribution from Leiden Observatory, has produced the most detailed radio map of the Universe ever made. Never before have so many cosmic radio sources been captured in a single survey: 13.7 million....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:28 +0000