Far beyond the reach of any telescope in your backyard, some four billion light years away, lies one of the…
Category: Astronomy
Astronomers Discover Ghostly Stars Tracing Dark Matter in Violent Cosmic Collision
In a distant corner of the universe, two colossal clusters of galaxies slammed into each other billions of years ago…
Enceladus’s Hidden Ocean May Be Even Stranger—And More Life-Friendly—Than We Thought
Far beyond the warmth of Earth, orbiting a planet adorned in rings, lies a moon barely 500 kilometers across—yet packed…
Astronomers Detect Baby Stars Hidden in a Distant Cosmic Cloud
In a dark, quiet corner of the southern sky, 620 light-years from Earth, a vast molecular cloud silently churns with…
Venus Accidentally Photobombs Earth Satellite and Reveals a Decade of Weather Data
It started with something unexpected—an accidental guest in the background of images meant only for Earth. While scanning through routine…
Superconducting Magnets Could Unlock a Hidden Universe of Gravitational Waves
It begins with a ripple—a faint tremor in the very fabric of space and time. Long before it reaches Earth,…
Scientists Plan Bold Journey to a Frozen World Beyond Pluto
In the frigid darkness beyond Pluto, where sunlight is a faint whisper and temperatures drop to an unimaginable −240°C, a…
Astronomers Get Closer to Finding the Universe’s First Stars
Long before Earth was born, before the Milky Way had its iconic spiral arms, before even the concept of a…
Tiny Stars Are Teeming with Earth-Like Planets According to New Study
On a remote mountaintop in southern Spain, under the crisp darkness of the Calar Alto sky, a telescope stares silently…
Astronomers May Have Found a Way to Watch Supermassive Black Holes Being Born
In the earliest chapters of our universe—just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang—galaxies had already begun to…
NASA’s Mars Orbiter Flips Upside Down to Reveal Hidden Ice Beneath the Surface
Nearly two decades after beginning its journey around the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has pulled off a…
Astronomers Detect Ancient Radio Glow from a Galaxy Cluster Ten Billion Light Years Away
In the silent expanse of the early universe, long before Earth even existed, something extraordinary was happening. Galaxies were gathering…
The South Pole Telescope Just Captured the Sharpest Portrait of the Early Universe
Over 13 billion years ago, the universe was young—so young it hadn’t even formed stars. It was a chaotic, searing…
Astronomers Discover a Colossal Supernova Remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud — and It’s Unlike Anything Seen Before
In the southern skies, far beyond the shimmering stars we see with the naked eye, lies a ghostly relic of…
Andromeda Sings in Light and Sound in Stunning New Tribute to Vera Rubin
In the vast stillness of space, just 2.5 million light-years away, a galaxy glows with quiet grandeur. It’s not just…
Distant Cousins of Jupiter and Saturn Finally Caught on Camera
Astronomers have spent decades listening for the whispers of distant planets—subtle dips in starlight, imperceptible wobbles in their stars, gravitational…
Astronomers Spot a Saturn-Sized Planet Hidden in Cosmic Dust
In the vast cosmic theater beyond our solar system, an extraordinary discovery is lighting up the dark—both literally and figuratively.…
Astronomers Discover Ancient Star Cluster That Lost 98 Percent of Its Mass
High in the Chilean Andes, beneath some of the darkest skies on Earth, a celestial mystery has quietly unraveled. Astronomers…
Black Hole Mergers Reveal Hidden Layers in Gravitational Wave Signals
In the silent symphony of the cosmos, black holes are the universe’s most enigmatic percussionists. When two of these celestial…
Desert Lichen Survives Deadly Space Radiation and Hints at Alien Life
For as long as humans have gazed upward, we’ve asked a question that cuts deeper than science—it strikes at the…
Astronomers Discover Massive Exoplanet Thanks to Worldwide Backyard Telescopes
In the deep, star-speckled fabric of the cosmos, 400 light-years from Earth, a new giant has been confirmed—one not of…
The Tiny Mountains That Might Be Bringing Dead Stars Back to Life
Imagine standing on a cosmic corpse—a dead star so incomprehensibly dense that a single teaspoon of its material would outweigh…