Space & Future
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...
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...
Deep Space
Scientists find a powerful dark matter detector: exoplanets
This exoplanet, a gas giant called GJ 504b, is about 57 light-years away from Earth. Exoplanets like this may help researchers find and measure...
Scientists find evidence of the universe’s first massive stars
Scientists have found evidence that the Universe's very first stars, known as 'first stars,' were even more massive than we thought.
Scientists discover Uranus has a dancing partner
In the vast expanse between Uranus and Neptune, a team of researchers have uncovered something really quite extraordinary, a minor planet that has been...
Scientists take the ultimate Earth selfie
Consider it Earth's ultimate mirror selfie.
In a new study, a team led by astrophysicist Allison Youngblood at the University of Colorado Boulder set out...
Scientists discover origins of icy building blocks of life
In a new study, scientists have discovered ice in deeper regions of such a molecular cloud than ever before.