On a warm summer afternoon in 1950, over lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi posed a…
Category: Astronomy
What Happens If You Fall Into a Black Hole?
Picture this: You’re floating in the cold vastness of space, surrounded by stars scattered like diamonds on black velvet. Ahead…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Set for Another Daring Dive Toward the Sun: What’s at Stake
In the unforgiving vacuum of space, where temperatures can swing from freezing to furnace-hot in an instant, a lone spacecraft…
SPHEREx: NASA’s New Space Telescope Poised to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe
On March 11, 2025, something extraordinary happened. As most of us went about our daily routines here on Earth, NASA…
Dark Energy: Unraveling the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
In the cosmic playbook, few mysteries grip scientists quite like dark energy. It’s the unseen hand pushing galaxies apart, accelerating…
Scientists Pinpoint Age of the Moon’s Largest, Oldest Crater: South Pole–Aitken Basin Formed 4.25 Billion Years Ago
For decades, scientists have wrestled with one of lunar science’s most enduring mysteries: just how old is the South Pole–Aitken…
A Terrifying Glimpse Into Our Galaxy’s Possible Fate: A Supermassive Black Hole and Jets That Could Doom Life on Earth
The universe is filled with wonders, but every so often, astronomers stumble across something that sends a collective shiver down…
The Galactic Year: One Orbit Around the Milky Way
When we think of a “year,” we picture the Earth taking its familiar path around the Sun—365 days, give or…
Super-Earths: Could We Live on These Giant Planets?
For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve wondered: Are we alone? Could there be…
First Light: The Earliest Galaxies in the Universe
Imagine a universe drenched in darkness. No stars twinkling in distant skies, no galaxies swirling in elegant spirals, no light…
Why Do Some Planets Have Rings While Others Don’t?
Have you ever gazed up at pictures of Saturn, its gleaming rings stretching out like cosmic jewelry, and wondered, Why…
The Science of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Detecting Alien Skies
When we gaze up at the night sky, what do we see? Tiny points of light, distant suns burning in…
The Artificial Brain That Hunts Interstellar Objects
In the vast, silent theater of space, a rare class of cosmic wanderers makes a fleeting appearance—interstellar objects (ISOs). These…
Hypernovae: The Cosmic Titans That Forge the Universe
The universe is a grand, unfolding epic of creation and destruction, a stage where stars are born, live out brilliant…
Could a Rogue Black Hole Pass Through Our Solar System?
Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing something is wrong. The stars seem to be shifting, strange gravitational…
Stellar Cannibalism: When Stars Eat Their Neighbors
Deep in the vast blackness of space, where the rules of life and death play out on scales beyond human…
Hypernovae: The Most Violent Explosions in the Universe
Among the countless wonders of the universe, few events are as spectacular—or as terrifying—as hypernovae. These cosmic explosions release more…
Dyson Swarms: Harvesting the Sun, Heating the Planet
Imagine a future where humanity—or some distant, hyper-advanced civilization—has grown so powerful, so energy-hungry, that the meager output of an…
Euclid Telescope Uncovers Thousands of Dwarf Galaxies
Two years into its mission, the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is living up to its promise of unlocking…
The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs: Could It Happen Again?
Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was thriving in the Late Cretaceous Period. Dinosaurs roamed forests and plains. Giant marine reptiles…