Statistically speaking, we should have heard from aliens by now
The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite billions of stars with potentially habitable...
NASA peers into a blazar’s heart and solves a 30-year-old mystery
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has helped scientists uncover the mystery behind how X-rays are generated in powerful jets from supermassive black holes.
The...
Scientists find new way to test the holographic universe theory
One hundred years ago, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger introduced his famous equation, now known as Schrödinger's Equation.
This groundbreaking formula describes how particles behave in...
Astronomers crack the code of massive star formation
Astronomers have finally solved a long-standing mystery about how massive stars form, thanks to groundbreaking observations made with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very...
Martian landforms look just like Earth’s—And that’s a big deal
Mars may be dry, dusty, and far from hospitable today, but new research suggests it once shared more in common with Earth than we...
NASA’s Webb Telescope uncovers secrets of a hot, mysterious exoplanet
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet called a “sub-Neptune.”
These planets don’t...
It’s either the Milky Way’s farthest known star cluster or the smallest known galaxy.
How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars?
That's easy, right?
A galaxy is a large collection of millions or billion of...
Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet: why many are...
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had found evidence...
Ancient Egyptians painted the Milky Way in their artwork
The Milky Way may have been painted across ancient Egyptian coffins thousands of years ago—and now, one scientist believes he’s found the evidence.
Dr. Or...
Scientists detect strongest clues yet of alien life on a distant planet
Astronomers have detected the most promising signs so far of possible life beyond our solar system.
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an...