Category: Astronomy

For nearly seventy years, scientists have wrestled with the mystery of magnetic reconnection—a powerful cosmic process that unlocks enormous stores…

Imagine staring at a familiar patch of night sky—quiet, calm, filled only with faint pinpricks of starlight—and then, suddenly, a…

The universe is vast, mysterious, and filled with objects so powerful they defy ordinary understanding. Among the brightest of these…

We’ve learned a lot about how planets form over the last century. From tiny grains of dust swirling in a…

Billions of years before Earth ever formed, when the universe was still a restless child, a massive galaxy blazed with…

Far beyond the luminous arms of the Milky Way, where our galaxy’s spiral fades into the cold and quiet darkness…

For decades, scientists have looked up at the stars and wondered not only if humanity could survive long-term space travel…

In the boundless theatre of the cosmos, there are actors so massive and others so unimaginably light that putting them…

For as long as humans have gazed at the night sky, we’ve wondered: Are we alone? This simple question —…

Some cosmic stories sound almost too wild to be real — yet nature often outdoes our imagination. Astronomers have now…

In the vast expanse of the universe, some objects shine with a light so intense that they defy our understanding…

For decades, humanity’s quest to answer the age-old question — Are we alone? — has fueled missions to distant worlds.…

Astronomers have taken a close look at one of the smallest and youngest star-like objects in our galactic neighborhood —…

In the cold, dark reaches of our solar system, comets drift like frozen time capsules, preserving secrets from the dawn…

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve seen stars as fixed, eternal points of…

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has meant listening for faint whispers from the stars — radio beacons, laser…

Black holes are among the most extreme and enigmatic objects in the universe — invisible giants that swallow everything, even…

For decades, scientists studying Mars have known the planet wears a thin veil of clouds — ghostly wisps of water…

For the first time, astronomers have caught a cosmic giant in the very moment it begins to stir from eons…

Far out in the depths of space, where light has traveled for more than 13 billion years to reach us,…

When we look up at the Sun, it’s easy to forget that it is just one of billions of stars…

In a discovery that could upend our understanding of how the cosmos began, scientists at the University of Missouri have…