For years, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have arrived like cosmic whispers—brief, brilliant flashes of radio light traveling billions of…
Category: Astronomy
Scientists Discover a Giant Iron Structure 500 Times the Size of Pluto’s Orbit
For centuries, the Ring Nebula has felt reassuringly known. Hanging in the northern constellation of Lyra, it has been sketched,…
Massive Oceans of Glowing Liquid Stone May Be Hiding Inside Alien Super-Earths
Far beneath the imagined landscapes of distant worlds, beyond mountains no telescope can see and depths no probe has reached,…
This Ancient Supernova Exploded When the Universe Was Only a Billion Years Old
Long before Earth existed, before the Sun had fully taken shape, the universe was still learning how to shine. Galaxies…
This Distant Galaxy Is Coming Back to Life and It Looks Like a Violent Explosion
For almost 100 million years, the heart of a distant galaxy lay quiet. At its center, a supermassive black hole…
James Webb Finally Solved the Mystery of the Little Red Dots
When the James Webb Space Telescope opened its golden eyes to the cosmos, it did more than deliver breathtaking images.…
These 19 Newly Discovered Pulsars Were Hiding in Our Own Galactic Backyard
Sometimes discovery does not come from pointing a new instrument at the heavens, but from listening more carefully to what…
Scientists Finally Know Why the Moon Has Two Completely Different Faces
Every night, the moon rises with the same familiar face turned toward Earth. Its dark volcanic plains form shapes people…
This Ordinary Point of Light Was Actually Hiding a Massive Cosmic Secret
At first glance, LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1 looked like just another faint point of light cataloged in a massive sky survey. Identified…
Scientists Thought This Black Hole Was Exploding but It’s Actually Doing the Opposite
Thirteen million light-years away, the Circinus galaxy appears calm and unassuming. But deep in its core, hidden behind dense curtains…
Most Planets in Our Galaxy Might Be Trapped in a Permanent Microbe Phase
For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has been fueled by a simple, hopeful idea. Look for planets that…
Astronomers Found a Ghostly Shock Wave Where Nothing Should Exist
Far from Earth, 730 light-years away, a small, dead star drifts through the galaxy, following the same slow orbit around…
Astronomers Discovered a Galaxy That Starved to Death Without a Single Explosion
In the vast, early universe, just a few billion years after everything began, one galaxy lived an intense and surprisingly…
This 11 Billion Year Old Galaxy Is Way More Mature Than Scientists Expected
Imagine gazing across the vast, dark ocean of the cosmos, looking so far back in time that the light you…
Scientists Found a Ghostly Reservoir of Gas That Shouldn’t Exist in the Deep Past
In the silent, dark expanse of the early universe, something massive was stirring. Long before the stars and galaxies we…
A Supermassive Black Hole Is Turning Into a Cosmic Fire Hose and Blasting Its Own Galaxy
In the vast, silent theater of the cosmos, galaxies are often thought of as self-contained cities of light, slowly spinning…
The Universe’s First Stars May Have Been Powered by Dark Matter Instead of Nuclear Fusion
In the deep, silent infancy of the cosmos, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe…
Millions of Hidden Black Holes Are Lurking in the Universe’s Smallest Galaxies
In the vast, silent stretches of our universe, galaxies drift like glowing islands, each harboring a secret at its core.…
Mars is Glowing with Ghostly Electrical Storms That Are Reshaping its Entire Surface
Mars is often painted as a silent, rusted graveyard, a world where the clock stopped eons ago. Yet, if you…
The Universe Is Jiggling Like Jell-O and Scientists Finally Know Why
Imagine the entire universe as a crowded, Olympic-sized swimming pool. Every galaxy is a swimmer, and every movement they make…
Scientists Finally Locate the Secret Engine Powering the Sun’s Most Violent Eruptions
On a typical afternoon in late 2017, the sun did what it has done for billions of years: it unleashed…
Strange Celestial Oddballs Are Hiding the Secrets of Alien Space Weather
For as long as humans have looked at the night sky, we have wondered about the invisible forces that shape…