Space & Future

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...

Ancient Cosmic Crash May Explain Neptune’s Strange Inner Moons

Neptune’s small inner moons may actually be the broken remains of a much older family of icy worlds that were destroyed billions of years...

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Vast Honeycomb Landscape on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered a remarkable landscape on Mars unlike anything it has seen before. While exploring a valley known as "Valle Grande," the...

The Asteroid That May Be Three Worlds

What shape is an asteroid? For (44) Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and...

James Webb Telescope Finds Powerful Wind That Can Kill Entire Galaxies

Astronomers have discovered a powerful "galaxy-killing wind" that may explain one of the biggest mysteries about the early universe: why so many massive galaxies...

Supermassive Black Hole Blasts Shock Waves Across 300,000 Light-Years, New Study Finds

Black holes are famous for pulling in everything that gets too close, including gas, dust, and even light. But new research shows they can also...

Deep Space

Mystery deepens as giant exoplanet refuses to reveal where it was born

Astronomers have taken a closer look at a giant planet called Beta Pictoris b, hoping to solve one of the biggest mysteries in planetary...

Peeking into the past: New study explains the birth of early galaxies

Ever wondered how our universe began and how the first galaxies formed? Well, scientists have been asking the same questions, and now, thanks to a...

Did gravitational tides cause Earth’s extinctions?

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand...

Scientists capture the sound of sparks on Mars

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that tiny bursts of electricity are happening in the atmosphere of Mars. These sparks were picked up by...

Cracking the dark matter mystery: Using galaxy clusters as cosmic colliders

What is dark matter? Even astrophysicists are still trying to answer this question. Dark matter makes up most of the matter in the universe and...