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

Fish could turn regolith into fertile soil on Mars

What a wonderful arguably simple solution. Here’s the problem, we travel to Mars but how do we feed ourselves? Sure we can take a load...

Scientists pinpoint when life first colonized an ancient meteorite crater

A new study has revealed that life not only survives catastrophic meteorite impacts but can actually thrive in the craters they leave behind. For the...

New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries

Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure - the largest ever seen in our galaxy - made up of interconnected...

Massive gas giant planets locked in a gravitational struggle

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On...

If wormholes exist, this is how we might find one

A new study outlines a method for detecting wormholes, which form a passage between two separate regions of spacetime. The speculative phenomenon that has long...