Space & Future
How Giant Galaxies Burned Bright and Died Young In the Early Universe
One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy is why some of the largest galaxies in the early universe stopped making stars surprisingly early in...
Red Dwarf Stars Caught Devouring Earth-Like Planets
Astronomers have discovered some of the clearest evidence yet that stars can consume their own planets.
In a new study published in the journal Monthly...
Something just passed between us and a distant star
On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly got brighter.
Not dramatically nor explosively, just...
Ancient “Cosmic Cities” Were Already Shaping Galaxies Soon After the Big Bang
Astronomers have discovered that galaxies were already being shaped by their surroundings just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, much earlier than scientists...
Black Hole “Gold Rush” Reveals Hundreds of Hidden Cosmic Collisions
Astronomers have unveiled the largest collection yet of gravitational wave detections, marking a major leap forward in our understanding of black holes and the...
The Sun just did something nobody expected and it kept going for 19 days
The Sun is not known for being quiet!
It blasts out energy equivalent to 100 billion nuclear bombs every single second, routinely hurls billion tonne...
Ancient Region Near Jupiter May Have Created Six Types of Meteorites
Scientists have discovered that a region just outside Jupiter’s orbit may have acted like a giant “planet factory” in the early solar system, producing...
A Beautiful Death How a Dying Star Created the Crystal Ball Nebula
Planetary nebulae like the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) are sort of like stellar obituaries.
Though crystal balls supposedly reveal the future, the Crystal Ball...
Scientists Detect Sand-Like Clouds That Vanish Daily on Alien World
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered unusual weather patterns on a giant exoplanet nearly 700 light-years away from Earth.
The planet, called...
Webb Telescope finds methane-rich atmosphere on rare Saturn-sized exoplanet
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet with an atmosphere rich in methane, offering scientists a rare look at...
NASA detects powerful gamma rays from a rare “supercharged” supernova
Astronomers have made an exciting discovery that could change how we understand some of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
Using data from NASA’s...
Tiny galaxies around the Milky Way may reveal what the infant universe was really...
Astronomers are turning to some of the smallest galaxies in the universe to answer one of the biggest questions in science: what was the...
Deep Space
Three baby stars found at the heart of the Milky Way
The core of our Milky Way is buzzing with stars.
Recently astronomers reported that it contains at least one ancient star that formed outside our...
Black holes might be nature’s ultimate particle colliders
some of the most mysterious objects in the universe—might do the job of expensive particle colliders, and maybe even better.
A team of researchers, including...
Why serious scientists are mesmerized by the multiverse
The multiverse may be a cool (and convenient) concept for comic books and superhero movies, but why do scientists take it seriously?
In a new...
An explanation for rogue planets. They were eroded down by hot stars
The dividing line between stars and planets is that stars have enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium to produce their own light, while...
Globular clusters evolve in interesting ways over time
Globular clusters are among the oldest objects in the Universe.
The early Universe was filled with dwarf galaxies and its just possible that globular clusters...