Spinning star may have cracked a giant galactic “bone”
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and powerful radio telescopes have likely solved a cosmic mystery—what caused a dramatic break in a massive structure...
How sound waves could help track space junk and meteors
Every year, Earth is bombarded with objects from space—some natural, like meteoroids, and others manmade, like space junk.
Most burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere,...
Some ‘Star Wars’ stories have already become reality
Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as the...
Cosmic surprise: Baby stars are greedier than we thought!
A new discovery is changing how scientists think about how stars and planets are formed. When a star is born, it’s usually surrounded by...
Astronomers observe dark matter bridge in the Perseus Cluster
Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the Universe, composed of thousands of galaxies bound together by mutual gravity.
Like galaxies, they grow through...
Soviet-era Venus mission to reenter in May
It’s one straight out of the history books. After over 50 years in space, the late Soviet Union’s Kosmos-482 mission is set to reenter...
NASA’s Juno mission peeks beneath Jupiter’s clouds and Io’s volcanoes
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just delivered some exciting discoveries from Jupiter and its fiery moon, Io.
The new findings, shared by scientists at a recent...
Giant star flares can forge the universe’s gold and platinum
Astronomers have discovered a surprising new source of some of the rarest and most valuable elements in the universe—massive flares from supermagnetized stars called...
A cosmic family album: Webb Telescope unveils 12 billion years of galaxy evolution
Astronomers have just revealed the largest collection of galaxy groups ever observed—thanks to the powerful eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
This record-breaking...
Vesta’s missing core: Could it be a lost piece of an ancient planet?
For years, scientists believed Vesta, one of the biggest objects in the asteroid belt, was more than just an asteroid.
They thought it had layers...