Category: Astronomy

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…

In the grand theater of the cosmos, where stars burn and galaxies collide, some of the most compelling dramas unfold in the quietest corners. One such drama recently caught the…

Out in the silent, ancient void 2.8 billion light-years from Earth, two colossal structures—each containing hundreds of galaxies, immense reservoirs of superheated gas, and vast clouds of invisible dark matter—are…

Few archaeological finds have gripped the imagination of the modern world quite like the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hidden in desert caves for over two millennia and rediscovered only in the…

In the remote corners of deep space, hidden behind veils of dust and separated from us by millions of light-years, something extraordinary is unfolding. Stars—some of the most massive ever…

For generations, the idea of transforming Mars from a frozen desert into a second Earth has inspired dreamers and scientists alike. It’s been imagined in novels, illustrated in glossy sci-fi…

Long before space telescopes pierced the veil of the cosmos, before humanity launched instruments to orbit the Earth or even dreamt of setting foot on the Moon, a faint smudge…

For over a century, the secrets of the universe have teased humanity from behind a veil of darkness—an elusive darkness that isn’t merely the absence of light, but the absence…

In the vast, cold darkness of space, there exist cosmic lighthouses so powerful that they can outshine entire galaxies. These titanic beacons are quasars—quasi-stellar objects that burn with the intensity…

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its powerful gaze toward the icy outskirts of our solar system, it caught a planet—or rather, a dwarf planet—revealing secrets that had…

The Sun is far more than a steady beacon in our sky—it is a boiling, roiling nuclear furnace, constantly releasing a torrent of charged particles into space. But exactly how…

Astronomers have long imagined the birthplaces of planets as serene nurseries of dust and gas gently swirling in protoplanetary disks. But recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…

On a quiet December night in 2024, as Earth rotated on unbothered by the chaos in the distant cosmos, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii caught sight…

For decades, the fate of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, seemed sealed. Like the final act of a slow-motion tragedy unfolding across the cosmos, astronomers believed it was destined…

It is hard to imagine the ghost of a star. And yet, floating 326 light years away from Earth is one such celestial ghost, known to astronomers as WD J004917.14–252556.81—or…

On the vast canvas of the cosmos, few events are as dramatic, as violent, and as enlightening as the collision of two neutron stars. These ultradense stellar remnants—no larger than…