Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the structured cosmos we ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more than 330,000 times that of our Earth, and yet there are stars in the universe ...

Answers to some of cosmology's most pressing questions are obscured by simple dust. It concerns the Cosmic Noon, a period of time that began around 2 billion years after the Big Bang, when nearly all ...

Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University in China, and his colleagues were combing through catalogs of stars in search of cold brown dwarfs, interstellar objects that fall somewhere between ...

The "cooling-flow problem" in galaxy clusters involves a discrepancy between the predicted rapid cooling of hot gas leading to intense star formation in central galaxies and the observed lack thereof ...

A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in ...

In the days of yore, becoming a coder involved years of study in college or ­university, or perhaps an intense bootcamp lasting months at a time that drilled participants in the basics of programming.

Orsola De Marco received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated (non-executive director of the Board) with Astronomy Australia Ltd. a not-for-profit company serving Australian ...

SOC Alternative Education Provision is run by Wolverhampton-based School of Coding & AI - the UK’s largest coding and AI educator. Its AEP offering is specifically created for students who have been ...