Category: Astronomy

In the quiet observatories nestled among Russia’s Crimean hills and the snow-lined ridges of the Caucasus Mountains, astronomers have spent decades peering into the sky, tracking the slow, restless heartbeat…

In the vast darkness of the cosmos, stars live long lives, but even they are not immortal. When a massive star dies, it doesn’t go gently. It explodes in a…

Somewhere in the Milky Way, just 60 light-years from Earth, a cold and lonely giant circles its star in an orbit shaped like a stretched football. Temperatures on this massive…

Imagine a cosmic predator, so massive that it can swallow entire stars, twisting the very fabric of space and time with a force so intense it would tear apart any…

In the vast expanse of space, where galaxies swirl and collide in a cosmic dance, astronomers have uncovered a discovery that challenges long-standing theories about how energy moves through the…

The night sky we gaze upon may seem eternal, a glittering ceiling of fixed stars. But the Milky Way — our home galaxy — is a turbulent, restless ocean of…

In the silent darkness of space, in a cold molecular cloud drifting 430 light-years from Earth, astronomers and chemists have spotted something extraordinary—a chemical giant forged in the heart of…

At the chaotic heart of our Milky Way galaxy, where gravity howls and stellar winds scream across the void, a strange quiet has descended. While this region is packed with…

In a corner of the ancient universe, where galaxies were just beginning to bloom and black holes grew hungrier by the day, something extraordinary happened. A titanic jet of energy—fired…

High in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, beneath one of the clearest skies on Earth, a small yet powerful telescope has been quietly gathering light from a little-known cluster…

For more than a century, cosmic rays have rained down on Earth—relentless, invisible travelers born in the violent heartbeats of the cosmos. Now, a team of astrophysicists at Michigan State…

In the vast silence of space, something is missing—something massive, invisible, and stubbornly elusive. For decades, scientists have tried to put a face to the dark matter that appears to…

In the invisible battleground where Earth’s atmosphere brushes up against the frontier of space, something strange is happening to the world’s fastest-growing satellite fleet. A quiet descent is quickening. Tiny…

In the heart of a seemingly quiet galaxy some 500 million light-years away, astronomers have uncovered a cosmic cannon firing matter at near-light speed—shattering the notion that radio-quiet galaxies always…

The universe has always been a vast and mysterious place, with its most enigmatic objects being black holes. These cosmic giants, known for their immense gravity, have captured the imagination…

In the cold void between stars, swaddled in thick veils of gas and ice, new worlds begin their long gestation. They form in massive disks of swirling material, churning with…

In a milestone for astronomy and open science, the international COSMOS-Web collaboration has released the most expansive and detailed map of the universe to date. This map, stitched together from…

Amid the vast, silent canvas of deep space, astronomers have learned to listen. Not with ears, but with colossal, ground-spanning radio antennas that stretch like spiderwebs across continents. Among these…

For nearly a century, the Big Bang theory has been the reigning champion of cosmic origin stories. It tells us that the universe, all 93 billion light-years of it, burst…

The universe has a way of surprising us, often in the most unexpected corners. One of the latest cosmic curveballs comes from a tiny red dwarf star nestled quietly in…