Scientists create Milky Way twins to unravel dark matter secrets
Scientists have created digital “twins” of our Milky Way galaxy to investigate one of the biggest puzzles in the universe: dark matter.
This invisible substance...
Cosmic clues reveal where the universe’s missing matter was hiding
For decades, scientists have been searching for something strange: a huge portion of the universe’s ordinary matter seemed to be missing.
Not dark matter, but...
Very massive stars expel more matter than previously thought
Very massive stars (VMSs), which typically has masses about 100 times that of our own Sun, are critical components in our understanding of the...
The mother of all meteor showers could threaten satellites
Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth.
But it still might impact the...
New NASA telescope could reveal hidden clues about dark matter
Next year, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch—and scientists believe it could change everything we know about dark matter, the...
Planet factories may be running on empty sooner than we thought
A new international study has revealed that planet-forming disks around young stars lose their gas much faster than their dust, challenging long-standing ideas about...
NASA’s Hubble uncovers a dusty mystery on Uranus’s moons
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope set out to study how Uranus’s magnetic field interacts with its largest moons—but instead, they stumbled upon a...
Stunning new image reveals baby stars hidden in dark cloud
A new image taken by the powerful Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has revealed a breathtaking view of one of the closest star-forming regions to...
How tiny dust grains become planets: A new clue from the cosmos
Scientists have just made an exciting discovery that helps explain one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy—how planets like Earth begin to form.
Using the...
‘Bunny ears’ in space: Astronomers uncover strange secrets of a jellyfish galaxy
Astronomers have uncovered surprising new details about a galaxy that looks like a jellyfish—and even sports a pair of strange “bunny ears.”
This galaxy, named...