Category: Astronomy

On a rocky plateau in South Africa’s remote Karoo region, 64 radio dishes stand vigil beneath a wide, unpolluted sky. They belong to MeerKAT, Africa’s most advanced radio telescope, and…

In a quiet pocket of space, 450 light-years from Earth, a pair of infant stars are whispering secrets of creation. Amid clouds of gas and dust swirling around them, something…

It begins with a shimmer—a warped sliver of light, bent by the invisible gravity of galaxies so massive they distort the very fabric of space-time. But that shimmer, that gravitational…

When NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2018, it had one primary mission: to find new worlds beyond our solar system. With four wide-angle cameras scanning the…

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on the dusty floor of Jezero Crater in February 2021, it wasn’t landing in just any crater. Jezero was chosen because it once held…

In the vast darkness more than 300 million light-years away, a galaxy is being reshaped by invisible forces as powerful as they are beautiful. It drifts like a jellyfish through…

The vast expanse of space is far from serene. It’s a chaos of radiation, cosmic rays, and violent starlight—conditions that would obliterate most molecules in a heartbeat. Yet, drifting silently…

When the Apollo astronauts set foot on the Moon in the late 1960s and early ’70s, they expected dust, rocks, and silence. What they didn’t expect was color—especially not the…

High above our planet, orbiting aboard the International Space Station, a sleek new instrument has opened a window into the heart of our solar system’s most powerful force: the Sun.…

In the quiet observatories nestled among Russia’s Crimean hills and the snow-lined ridges of the Caucasus Mountains, astronomers have spent decades peering into the sky, tracking the slow, restless heartbeat…

In the vast darkness of the cosmos, stars live long lives, but even they are not immortal. When a massive star dies, it doesn’t go gently. It explodes in a…

Somewhere in the Milky Way, just 60 light-years from Earth, a cold and lonely giant circles its star in an orbit shaped like a stretched football. Temperatures on this massive…

Imagine a cosmic predator, so massive that it can swallow entire stars, twisting the very fabric of space and time with a force so intense it would tear apart any…

In the vast expanse of space, where galaxies swirl and collide in a cosmic dance, astronomers have uncovered a discovery that challenges long-standing theories about how energy moves through the…

The night sky we gaze upon may seem eternal, a glittering ceiling of fixed stars. But the Milky Way — our home galaxy — is a turbulent, restless ocean of…

In the silent darkness of space, in a cold molecular cloud drifting 430 light-years from Earth, astronomers and chemists have spotted something extraordinary—a chemical giant forged in the heart of…

At the chaotic heart of our Milky Way galaxy, where gravity howls and stellar winds scream across the void, a strange quiet has descended. While this region is packed with…

In a corner of the ancient universe, where galaxies were just beginning to bloom and black holes grew hungrier by the day, something extraordinary happened. A titanic jet of energy—fired…

High in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, beneath one of the clearest skies on Earth, a small yet powerful telescope has been quietly gathering light from a little-known cluster…