Does Free Will Exist? Part 1: The Clockwork Universe
Reported by Universe Today
Check this out. There are some experiments that just make you…stop. That make you reconsider everything you’ve ever known....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:05 +0000
Astronomers Discover a Bright Supernova Using Gravitational Lensing for the First Time
Reported by Universe Today
An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground-based telescopes, including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, has discovered the first-ever spatially resolved, gravitationally lensed superluminous supernova. The ob...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:54 +0000
As Puzzling As A Platypus: The JWST Finds Some Hard To Categorize Objects
Reported by Universe Today
Astronomers found a handful of unusual objects in JWST survey data. These 9 point sources are being called 'Astronomy's Platypus' because, like the animal, they seem to defy categorization. They're not like active galactic nuclei, and they're not like star...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:44 +0000
Supernova Remnant Video From NASA’s Chandra Is Decades in Making
Reported by NASA
A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first sp...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:30 +0000
NASA Awards Launch Range Contract for Wallops Flight Facility
Reported by NASA
NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one...
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:19 +0000
The Galaxy That Never Was
Reported by Universe Today
A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object —a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud that is considered a “relic” or remnant of early galaxy formation. Nicknamed “Cloud-9,” this is the first co...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:17 +0000