Space & Future
Mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ May Be Giant Stars That Gave Birth to the Universe’s...
One of the biggest mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope may finally have a promising explanation.
Astronomers believe that the strange objects known...
Pluto’s Frozen Heart May Still Be Alive with Flowing Liquid Nitrogen
Pluto may be far colder than any place on Earth, but scientists have discovered evidence that something surprising may still be moving beneath its...
Astronomers Witness a Giant Star’s Final Moments from The Very First Flash of Its...
Astronomers have captured one of the rarest events in the universe—the very first moments of a massive star exploding.
The discovery has given scientists an...
Venus May Still Be Alive with Active Volcanoes, Surprising Study Finds
For many years, scientists believed Venus was a dead world with little or no geological activity. Although it is Earth's closest planetary neighbor, Venus...
Scientists Detect Possible Signs That Pluto’s Atmosphere Is Freezing Out
Scientists may have detected the first signs that Pluto's thin atmosphere is beginning to collapse as the dwarf planet slowly travels farther from the...
Young Stars Reshape Galaxies Long Before They Explode, Astronomers Discover
Young stars do much more than simply light up the night sky.
According to new research, they begin changing the future of their entire galaxies...
Hidden black hole blast revealed years later by a powerful radio glow
Astronomers have uncovered remarkable new evidence of a rare "missing-link" black hole after detecting a powerful burst of radio waves that continued growing brighter...
Can pumping groundwater really flip Earth’s poles
Recently, a government minister in the Northern Territory, pitching a plan to make Darwin "the data center capital of the globe," suggested it might...
Astronomers Uncover the Magnetic Signature Of the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions
Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough by detecting a hidden magnetic signal from one of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
Using the U.S....
Hidden Moon Ice May Soon Be Found by Listening to Moonquakes
Scientists may have found a new way to search for water ice hidden beneath the Moon's surface—by listening to the vibrations caused by moonquakes.
A...
Ancient Stardust Helped Build the First Solid Pieces of Our Solar System
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that tiny grains of ancient stardust may have played a key role in creating the first solid material in...
Solar wind creates giant space waves that slowly strip away Mars’ atmosphere
Mars is slowly losing parts of its atmosphere to space, and scientists have discovered that the process may be driven by giant waves created...
Deep Space
New finding challenges current theories on how galaxies grow
Three dozen dwarf galaxies far from each other had a simultaneous "baby boom" of new stars, an unexpected discovery that challenges current theories on...
Scientists discover two supermassive black holes headed for a collision
Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision.
Each black hole's mass is more than 800 million times that...
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...
Scientists present first evidence of gravitational wave ‘background’
A quintet of new studies offers the first direct evidence of a gravitational wave background, confirming standard models of black hole growth.
Researchers have found...
Scientists discover highest-energy light from a gamma-ray burst
Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the cosmos.
These explosive events last a fraction of a second to several minutes and emit the...