Category: Astronomy

In the shadowy outskirts of distant solar systems, far beyond the orbit of the outermost known planets, lie massive planetary bodies that defy traditional rules of planet formation. These so-called…

Floating serenely in the southern sky, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is more than just a nearby dwarf galaxy—it’s a living archive of the cosmos. Among its brightest relics is…

For over a decade, astronomers have been puzzled by a curious conflict in our understanding of the universe—a conflict that threatened to shake the very foundation of modern cosmology. At…

In a universe of blazing stars and searing galaxies, it’s easy to forget that some of the most significant ingredients for life hide in the cold. Water, the molecule that…

The Moon, so often a symbol of stillness and silence in the night sky, has long held a secret deep within its ancient rocks: a history of magnetism that no…

It was the kind of discovery that sets imaginations ablaze. On April 16, 2025, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Cambridge unveiled tantalizing evidence of…

In the boundless canvas of the cosmos, some of the universe’s most spectacular stories unfold in silence—hidden in pulses of radiation, in the quiet shudders of gravity, in faint eclipses…

More than eighty years after the idea of dark matter was first floated to explain puzzling galactic motions, we still don’t know what it’s made of. Across decades and continents,…

In the vast cosmic wilderness, more than 11 billion years in the past, when the universe was still young and chaotic, a cosmic titan bloomed—massive, beautiful, and astonishingly ordered. It…

High above our heads, a storm is raging—one that we cannot see, touch, or hear, but which has captivated the curiosity of physicists for over half a century. It’s not…

In the grand cosmic game of planetary discovery, most eyes are on the stars—bright, massive, and full of drama. But some of the universe’s most intriguing secrets are quietly hiding…

On the outermost fringes of the solar system—far beyond the icy dominion of Neptune, in a region once thought nearly barren—a faint, wandering light has upended what astronomers thought they…

High in the heavens, pairs of stars drift together like celestial twins, born from the same cloud of gas and dust, bound by gravity, and moving through space side-by-side. These…

Deep in the frigid expanse of the outer solar system, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, cloaks itself in golden haze and mystery. Shrouded by a thick, smoggy atmosphere rich in nitrogen…

It’s 280 million years after the Big Bang. The universe is dark, just beginning to light up with the first stars and galaxies. At that time, no planets circle stars.…

Across the vast stretches of our galaxy lie glowing nurseries of stars—tumultuous regions where gravity gathers clouds of dust and gas, igniting the fires of stellar birth. Yet amidst this…

Every day, our solar system is bathed in a quiet, invisible rain of particles that don’t come from the Sun, or the Earth, or even any nearby planet. These are…

In the vast, ancient darkness of the cosmos, two galaxies have locked themselves into a dramatic and violent celestial dance. Their battleground is a patch of sky so distant that…

In the ever-unfolding drama of the cosmos, where titanic energies collide in silence and the birth and death of stars leave echoes across spacetime, a new celestial enigma has emerged.…

Deep within the celestial nursery of the Taurus star-forming region, approximately 610 light-years from Earth, a young star named DR Tauri pulses and flickers like an untamed flame. Unlike the…