Space & Future
Stunning new image reveals hidden gas “rivers” at the heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers have captured the most detailed view ever of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing a tangled web of cold gas filaments...
How giant galaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang
When the venerable Hubble Space Telescope made its Deep Fields studies of the early Universe, it discovered something that would puzzle astronomers to this...
Scientists discover Earth-like auroras on Jupiter’s giant moon
Scientists have discovered that the colorful light shows seen above Earth’s poles also occur on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon—and they behave in strikingly similar...
NASA spots a young sun blowing a giant bubble in space
Astronomers have captured the first clear image of a giant “bubble” surrounding a young star that closely resembles what our own sun looked like...
Jupiter’s icy moons may have been born with the ingredients for life
Scientists have found new evidence that Jupiter’s largest moons may have received the chemical building blocks of life at the moment they formed.
The discovery...
Why we may still be waiting for an alien signal
Since the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) experiment in 1960, scientists have been scanning the Milky Way for signs of advanced alien civilizations.
They...
Could quantum light expose the universe’s biggest mystery?
Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science.
Astronomers believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe, yet no one...
Scientists discover hidden teenage galaxies at the edge of the universe
Astronomers have uncovered a mysterious group of distant galaxies that may fill an important gap in our understanding of how galaxies grow and change...
Webb Telescope peers into Uranus’s mysterious upper atmosphere
For the first time, scientists have created a detailed map of the upper atmosphere of Uranus, revealing how temperature and electrically charged particles change...
Why so many space rocks look like snowmen
Far beyond Neptune, at the cold edge of our solar system, millions of icy objects drift quietly in a region called the Kuiper Belt.
These...
NASA’s Hubble finds a ghost galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an extremely faint galaxy that may be made almost entirely of dark matter, the mysterious substance...
Astronomers get to the heart of Mira A’s latest outburst
Just a few hundred light-years from Earth, the famous variable star Mira A is huffing and puffing its outer layers to space. Its most...
Deep Space
Where next for space exploration?
Everyone is talking about our achievements in space since the moon landing 50 years ago, but what new ‘giant leap’ will we all be...
No light black holes: quantum physics debunks decades-old theory
For the past seventy years, astrophysicists have speculated about the existence of "kugelblitze," special black holes formed from extremely high concentrations of light.
These theoretical...
Webb Telescope sees an early galaxy blowing away the cosmic fog
Scientists studying the early Universe have uncovered an intriguing mystery and as a closet Sherlock Holmes fan I cannot resist a mystery.
Our mystery begins...
Protostars can siphon material from far away, says study
When stars are born, they do it inside a molecular cloud.
Astronomers long assumed that the "crèche" supplied all the nutrients that protostars needed to...
Is there a link between primordial black holes, neutrinos, and dark matter
Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in Nature it came...