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Category: Astronomy
No Alien Signals Detected from 3I/ATLAS, But Its Journey Still Leaves Us Stunned
When astronomers first noticed a faint, fast-moving object slipping into our solar system on July 1, 2025, it felt like…
Move Over, Sun: This Supermassive Black Hole Just Had a Flare-Up That Put Solar Storms to Shame
Somewhere deep within a graceful spiral galaxy called NGC 3783, a quiet balance was broken. For countless years, a supermassive…
This “Quiet” Galaxy Was Hiding a Secret 160,000 Light-Years Wide
At first glance, ESO 130-G012 did not look like a troublemaker. It sits some 55 million light years away, an…
Astronomers Just Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Mystery—And It Wasn’t a Star After All
For centuries, the Star of Bethlehem has hovered between faith and mystery. It shines briefly in the biblical story, guiding…
150 Light Years Away, an “Ordinary” Star Just Unleashed a 91 Decillion Erg Explosion
It began not with fireworks, but with a quiet signal slipping through the data streams of a space telescope. Somewhere…
Astronomers Discover a Cosmic Smash-Up 1.3 Million Light Years Wide
From Earth, the region of space known as RXC J0032.1+1808 looks calm, almost unremarkable. It sits quietly in the nearby…
Astronomers Found Three Hungry Black Holes Colliding in a Single Cosmic System
From 1.2 billion light-years away, a faint but persistent radio glow reached Earth, carrying with it a story no one…
Hubble Found the Biggest Planet-Building Disk Ever—and It’s Wildly One-Sided
When astronomers pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope toward a young star system about 1,000 light-years from Earth, they expected something…
Scientists Crack Open Billion-Year-Old Salt—and Discover a Shockingly Breathable Ancient Earth
More than a billion years ago, sunlight shimmered across a shallow lake in what is now northern Ontario. The world…
This Supernova Didn’t Explode Loudly — and That’s Exactly Why Scientists Are Excited
On a June night in 2022, something subtle changed in a distant spiral galaxy. There was no flash bright enough…
This Glowing Cloud Isn’t a Celebration — It’s Thousands of Stars Being Born at Once
At first glance, the scene feels almost celebratory, as if the universe itself has strung lights across a dark sky.…
Astronomers Thought They Found a Planet — Then It Vanished and Something Even Stranger Appeared
The story began the way many astronomical discoveries do: with something that looked ordinary at first glance. A bright point…
The Milky Way Was Once a Cosmic Troublemaker, New Webb Study Reveals
For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, the Milky Way has been both a familiar…
This Newly Found Stellar Cannibal Spins Every 2.86 Milliseconds and Refuses to Stay Visible
It began as a faint, restless signal buried in radio data from the southern sky. To most eyes, it might…
Saturn’s Rings Aren’t as Thin as We Thought — Cassini Found a Hidden Halo After Its Death
In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft began its final act. After years of orbiting Saturn, sending back breathtaking images and reshaping…
Astronomers Thought These Blue Flashes Were Supernovae — The Truth Turned Out to Be Far More Violent
For years, astronomers have been haunted by fleeting cosmic flashes that arrive without warning and vanish almost as quickly. These…
This Strange Object Orbits One of the Milky Way’s Oldest Stars—and It Isn’t a Planet or a Star
The story began quietly, with a faint, rhythmic dip in the light of a distant star. To most eyes, it…
Astronomers Nearly Lost Interest—Until This Cosmic Blast Did Something Unthinkable
The universe has a habit of surprising astronomers just when they think they know what to expect. In August 2025,…
Astronomers Finally Catch a Supermassive Black Hole Fleeing Its Galaxy After 50 Years of Predictions
For decades, supermassive black holes were thought to be prisoners of their galaxies. Enormous beyond comprehension, weighing hundreds of millions…
Astronomers Discover Planetary-Mass Object Orbiting a Tiny Star 690 AU Away
About 430 light years from Earth, a cold and shadowy stretch of space quietly gives birth to stars. This place,…
Scientists Warn Earth’s Satellite Network Could Collapse in Days—and the Sun Might Be the Trigger
High above Earth, far beyond the reach of weather and borders, thousands of satellites race around the planet in carefully…