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Category: Astronomy
Scientists Found a Record Breaking Gamma Ray Source With No Visible Heart
Somewhere in the vastness of the sky, a source of radiation is hurling particles across space with energies so extreme…
Astronomers Discover That Uranus Has Been Mysteriously Cooling Down for Decades
For centuries, Uranus drifted through our understanding as a distant, pale world—icy, tilted, and mysterious. Astronomers could measure its orbit,…
This One in a Million Cosmic Explosion Is the Key to Measuring the Entire Universe
For nearly a hundred years, astronomers have known something astonishing: the universe is expanding. Galaxies are drifting apart, carried along…
A Ghost Particle Carrying 220 Peta-Electron Volts Just Hit the Bottom of the Mediterranean
Far beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, where sunlight fades into darkness and silence presses in from all sides,…
Astronomers Found a Ghost Galaxy That Is 99% Dark Matter
In the grand sweep of the universe, galaxies usually make themselves known. They blaze with the light of billions of…
This Elegant Spiral Galaxy Is Hiding a Massive Secret at Its Center
Far beyond our own galaxy, about 86.7 million light-years away, a spiral of light turns slowly in the dark. Its…
The Early Universe Grew Up Much Faster Than Scientists Ever Thought Possible
There is a moment in cosmic history that feels almost impossibly distant. Just one billion years after the Big Bang,…
A Single Supermassive Black Hole Is Killing Star Birth in Neighboring Galaxies Millions of Light Years Away
In the vast darkness of the early universe, something blazed so fiercely that it outshone entire galaxies. At the heart…
Astronomers Find a Massive Galaxy Bleeding Stars 8.5 Billion Years in the Past
Far beyond the reach of ordinary sight, in a region of sky that has been quietly watched for years, something…
Astronomers Found a Giant Star That Skipped the Supernova and Turned Directly Into a Black Hole
In 2014, deep within the vast spiral of the Andromeda galaxy, a massive star began to glow more brightly in…
Dark Matter Might Be the Invisible Hand Humming Behind the Universe’s Faintest Magnetic Fields
Long before galaxies fully blossomed and long after the first atoms formed, something subtle was already stretching across the vastness…
This Distant Stellar Explosion Stayed Bright for 126 Days and No One Expected It
On November 15, 2024, a faint but unmistakable spark appeared in the galaxy NGC 2146. At an apparent magnitude of…
Scientists Detect One of the Brightest Cosmic Explosions Ever Seen
On July 2, 2025, during what was meant to be an ordinary sweep of the sky, something refused to stay…
Astronomers Watched a Giant Star Bypass a Supernova and Turn Directly Into a Black Hole
For decades, astronomers have watched the sky expecting certain stars to end their lives in a blaze of glory. Massive…
Scientists Found a Rocky Planet Where a Gas Giant Should Be and It Changes Everything
For decades, astronomers have looked up at the night sky with a quiet assumption in mind. Planetary systems, they believed,…
The Mystery of the Star That Lost 97 Percent of Its Light in an Instant
For decades, a distant star in the constellation Monoceros lived a quiet, predictable life. Sitting roughly 3,200 light-years from Earth…
The Milky Way Is Slowly Peeling the Lightest Stars Away From This Ghostly Cluster
Far beyond the glow of our night sky, about 52,200 light years from Earth in the constellation Boötes, a dim…
A Mysterious 8.19 Millisecond Pulse Detected Near the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
At the very center of our galaxy, in a region so crowded and chaotic that even light struggles to move…
Astronomers Found an Ancient Galaxy That Grew Up Way Too Fast for the Big Bang Timeline
For nearly two decades, astronomers have stared into the deep past of the universe and found something that did not…
Astronomers Found a New World Hiding in a Star System We Thought We Knew
Ninety-one light-years away, in a patch of sky that looks calm and unremarkable to the naked eye, a modest star…
Scientists Might Have Finally Solved the Mystery of the Universe’s Little Red Dots
When the James Webb Space Telescope first opened its golden eye on the early universe, it did what it was…