When NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2018, it had one primary mission: to find new worlds…
Category: Astronomy
This Martian Mountain Could Hold the Secrets to Ancient Life on Mars
When NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on the dusty floor of Jezero Crater in February 2021, it wasn’t landing in…
This Jellyfish Galaxy Is Fighting to Keep Its Stars in a Cosmic Windstorm
In the vast darkness more than 300 million light-years away, a galaxy is being reshaped by invisible forces as powerful…
James Webb Uncovers the Secret Life of Space-Born Molecules
The vast expanse of space is far from serene. It’s a chaos of radiation, cosmic rays, and violent starlight—conditions that…
Moon Beads Reveal a Fiery Volcanic Past Hidden for Billions of Years
When the Apollo astronauts set foot on the Moon in the late 1960s and early ’70s, they expected dust, rocks,…
The Sun’s Outer Atmosphere Is Wilder Than We Thought
High above our planet, orbiting aboard the International Space Station, a sleek new instrument has opened a window into the…
Astronomers Uncover New Secrets of SS 433, the First Microquasar Ever Discovered
In the quiet observatories nestled among Russia’s Crimean hills and the snow-lined ridges of the Caucasus Mountains, astronomers have spent…
Supernova Explosions May Have Triggered Ancient Climate Shifts
In the vast darkness of the cosmos, stars live long lives, but even they are not immortal. When a massive…
Webb Telescope Captures Chilling Portrait of a Rogue Planet in a Chaotic Star System
Somewhere in the Milky Way, just 60 light-years from Earth, a cold and lonely giant circles its star in an…
The Monster Black Hole That Spins Faster Than Anything in the Universe
Imagine a cosmic predator, so massive that it can swallow entire stars, twisting the very fabric of space and time…
Astronomers Discover the Largest Cloud of Energetic Particles Ever Seen
In the vast expanse of space, where galaxies swirl and collide in a cosmic dance, astronomers have uncovered a discovery…
Young Stars Reveal a Hidden Map of the Milky Way’s Outer Edges
The night sky we gaze upon may seem eternal, a glittering ceiling of fixed stars. But the Milky Way —…
Scientists Discover the Largest Organic Molecule Ever Found in Space
In the silent darkness of space, in a cold molecular cloud drifting 430 light-years from Earth, astronomers and chemists have…
The Center of the Milky Way Is Strangely Quiet on Star Birth
At the chaotic heart of our Milky Way galaxy, where gravity howls and stellar winds scream across the void, a…
11 Billion-Year-Old Black Hole Jet Seen Blazing Bright
In a corner of the ancient universe, where galaxies were just beginning to bloom and black holes grew hungrier by…
A Star Cluster Is Dying and Astronomers Have Spent a Decade Watching It Happen
High in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, beneath one of the clearest skies on Earth, a small yet powerful…
The Milky Way’s Deepest Secrets Are Hiding in Every Breath You Take
For more than a century, cosmic rays have rained down on Earth—relentless, invisible travelers born in the violent heartbeats of…
The Starborn Ghost That Could Solve the Universe’s Darkest Mystery
In the vast silence of space, something is missing—something massive, invisible, and stubbornly elusive. For decades, scientists have tried to…
The Sun Is Dragging Starlink Satellites Out of the Sky
In the invisible battleground where Earth’s atmosphere brushes up against the frontier of space, something strange is happening to the…
This Silent Galaxy Just Unleashed a Jet That Defies the Speed of Light
In the heart of a seemingly quiet galaxy some 500 million light-years away, astronomers have uncovered a cosmic cannon firing…
Neural Networks Unlock New Secrets of Milky Way’s Black Hole
The universe has always been a vast and mysterious place, with its most enigmatic objects being black holes. These cosmic…
Astronomers Uncover Rare Alcohol in Alien Planet Nursery That Could Explain How Life Began
In the cold void between stars, swaddled in thick veils of gas and ice, new worlds begin their long gestation.…