Category: Astronomy

On the vast canvas of the cosmos, few events are as dramatic, as violent, and as enlightening as the collision…

Long before the telescope reshaped astronomy, when European star charts were still sparse and speculative, Chinese astronomers were looking up…

In the three decades since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star, the search for other worlds has…

For centuries, astronomers have gazed skyward, working to decode the cosmic choreography that governs our solar system. They’ve modeled planetary…

For centuries, the question of extraterrestrial life has captivated human imagination. But in the scientific age, that curiosity has transformed…

On Halloween week in 2003, while children in costumes collected candy under the glow of streetlamps, an invisible force lashed…

It begins with a question as old as humanity itself: are we alone in the universe? For decades, scientists at…

In the vast menagerie of alien worlds scattered across our galaxy, few are as baffling—or as blisteringly extreme—as WASP-121b. This…

The question of whether we are alone in the universe has long haunted our species. For most of modern astronomy,…

Look up at the night sky, and you’ll see stars twinkling like scattered diamonds, galaxies floating like distant islands, and…

For centuries, humanity has gazed up at the stars in wonder, tracing constellations and dreaming of the origins of the…

Deep in our solar system, cloaked in a thick, toxic atmosphere and scorched by temperatures hot enough to melt lead,…

In the vast, enigmatic theater of the universe, black holes perform as both destroyers and storytellers. These celestial enigmas—points in…

In the shadowy edges of spacetime, where gravity is so intense that not even light can escape, a remarkable story…

Far above the rust-red plains of Mars, invisible to the eye but deadly in consequence, a slow and ghostly escape…

In the depths of the southern constellation Vela, 16,000 light-years away, lies a glittering relic of the early universe—NGC 3201,…

For over half a century, lithium—the silvery, soft metal often associated with smartphone batteries and mental health medications—has remained one…

More than a century ago, Albert Einstein predicted something almost too strange to believe—that space itself could warp under the…

In the shadowy outskirts of distant solar systems, far beyond the orbit of the outermost known planets, lie massive planetary…

Floating serenely in the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is more than just a nearby dwarf galaxy—it’s a…

For over a decade, astronomers have been puzzled by a curious conflict in our understanding of the universe—a conflict that…

In a universe of blazing stars and searing galaxies, it’s easy to forget that some of the most significant ingredients…