Space & Future

How heavy can a neutron star get

The physics of neutron stars are almost too fantastic to believe. Something the weight of two Suns compacted to a sphere the size of...

Scientists get their best-ever look at distant planet’s surface

Astronomers have found thousands of worlds in faraway star systems, but one of the questions that’s been hardest to answer is the one that...

Is extracting oxygen from lunar soil the future of space exploration

A new race to the moon is emerging between the United States and China. Unlike fifty years ago, the goal is no longer just about...

Everything we thought we knew about dark energy could be wrong

For nearly 30 years, scientists have believed that a mysterious force called dark energy is causing the universe to expand faster and faster. But a...

The Sun is changing and we don’t know why

Put your ear to the ground in the right place and you can hear a train coming from miles away. Long before it appears on...

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...

Deep Space

Scientists discover super-Earths are common far from their stars

A new study led by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has revealed that planets larger than Earth—known as...

Exploring the mysteries of black holes and beyond

Black holes have always been one of the most fascinating subjects in the universe. They are like cosmic puzzles that scientists have been trying...

Scientists discover surprisingly calm and remote galaxy cluster

Scientists have stumbled upon the most remote 'relaxed' galaxy cluster to date—making it the furthest we've seen that isn't being disrupted by hectic collisions...

New infrared telescope could spot cosmic hidden treasures

A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire southern sky in...

New study reveals life forms that could survive on Mars

The extremely salty, very cold, and almost oxygen-free environment under the permafrost of Lost Hammer Spring in Canada’s High Arctic is the one that...