On a rocky plateau in South Africa’s remote Karoo region, 64 radio dishes stand vigil beneath a wide, unpolluted sky.…
Category: Astronomy
Astronomers Uncover How Gas and Dust Evolve Differently in Planet Birth Zones
High above the Chilean desert, nestled among the jagged Andes peaks of the Atacama Plateau, 66 white dish antennas silently…
Dust Grains Ride Stellar Winds to Build Planets in Deep Space
In a quiet pocket of space, 450 light-years from Earth, a pair of infant stars are whispering secrets of creation.…
Astronomers Are Using Warped Light and Space Vibrations to Unlock Deep Cosmic Secrets
It begins with a shimmer—a warped sliver of light, bent by the invisible gravity of galaxies so massive they distort…
Three Blazing Giant Planets Found Racing Around Distant Suns
When NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2018, it had one primary mission: to find new worlds…
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…