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Webb Finds the Tiny Host Galaxy of the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst
Webb traced FRB 20240304B to a young dwarf galaxy 3 billion years after the Big Bang, evidence that some fast radio bursts come from magnetars.
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W. M. Keck Observatory
Elias 2-24 b Is the Youngest Exoplanet Yet, Still Growing in Its Disk
arXiv (Batygin, Fuller and Adams)
Lopsided Mass Loss as the Sun Dies Could Wreck the Outer Solar System
The Astrophysical Journal (LBT Yp Project)
LBT Measures Primordial Helium to 0.5%, Matching Big Bang Predictions
University of Chicago News
South Pole Telescope Maps Matter With the Clearest CMB Lensing Yet
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
LZ Dark Matter Detector Sees One Event Backgrounds Struggle to Explain
Northwestern University
First Globular Cluster Stellar Stream Found Beyond the Milky Way
DESI Collaboration
DESI's Lyman-Alpha Forest Keeps Evolving Dark Energy in Play
W. M. Keck Observatory
Euclid and Keck Double the Earliest Quasars and Set a Distance Record
W. M. Keck Observatory
Keck Finds DF9, a Third Galaxy That Appears to Lack Dark Matter
LIGO Laboratory (Caltech)
GWTC-5.0 Catalog Brings the Gravitational-Wave Tally to 390 Events
LIGO Laboratory (Caltech)
