Space & Future
Scientists discover exploding star material hidden in Antarctic Ice
Scientists studying ancient Antarctic ice have discovered new evidence that Earth is currently traveling through a cloud of material left behind by long-dead stars.
An...
Scientists discover strange “toothpaste-like” space effect deep in Mars’s atmosphere
Scientists studying Mars have discovered a surprising atmospheric phenomenon that was previously only known to exist around Earth.
The discovery could change how researchers understand...
Iron and ice: Earth’s passage through the interstellar cloud
Iron-60 is a radioactive isotope of iron that's found in Antarctic ice and in deep-sea crusts.
It's only source is nucleosynthesis in the cataclysmic explosive...
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may still be building its heart of metal
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is already famous for being the largest moon in the solar system. At more than 3,200 miles wide, it is even...
Scientists find a new way to listen to the “ringing” of black holes
When two black holes crash into each other, the event is one of the most violent and powerful collisions in the universe.
The two objects...
Astrophysicists use ‘space archaeology’ to trace the history of a spiral galaxy
Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe.
It pulled in gas and small companion...
Scientists solve a cosmic mystery hidden inside the Perseus galaxy cluster
An international team of scientists has uncovered new clues about how stars lived and died billions of years ago by studying one of the...
Scientists may have detected signs of dark matter in black hole collisions
Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in modern science.
Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, yet nobody...
Ancient Martian mega-flood carved a valley as long as Italy
A massive valley on Mars may hold some of the strongest evidence yet that enormous floods once rushed across the red planet billions of...
Astronomers finally capture how turbulent space warps light across the galaxy
Astronomers have directly observed how turbulent gas and charged particles floating between stars can bend and distort light traveling across the galaxy.
The discovery gives...
Astronomers discover violent past hidden inside a “calm” galaxy cluster
A giant galaxy cluster once thought to be one of the calmest places in the universe is now revealing signs of a violent past.
Astronomers...
Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of solar system’s...
When you think of outer space, you're likely picturing stars, planets and moons. But much of space is filled with clouds of gas, plasma...
Deep Space
Distant Milky Way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universe
Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy!
The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by...
Saturn’s magic ring is from its lost moon Chrysalis, shows study
Rings appear to be common around planets in the solar system, but the dramatic rings of Saturn have long puzzled astronomers, as has the...
These three neutron stars shouldn’t be so cold
Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the Universe, second only to black holes.
Like black holes, neutron stars are what remains after a...
Our Milky Way is not unusual, shows study
Detailed cross-section of another galaxy reveals surprising similarities to our home.
The first detailed cross-section of a galaxy broadly similar to the Milky Way reveals...
Astronomers discover 400 “sibling” star clusters hidden in the Milky Way
Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or later became partners as...