Category: Astronomy

For decades, scientists have wrestled with one of lunar science’s most enduring mysteries: just how old is the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on…

The universe is filled with wonders, but every so often, astronomers stumble across something that sends a collective shiver down the spine of science. A recent discovery has done just…

When we think of a “year,” we picture the Earth taking its familiar path around the Sun—365 days, give or take a few hours, a rhythm that defines life on…

For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve wondered: Are we alone? Could there be other worlds out there, teeming with life or waiting to…

Imagine a universe drenched in darkness. No stars twinkling in distant skies, no galaxies swirling in elegant spirals, no light at all. This was the cosmos shortly after the Big…

Have you ever gazed up at pictures of Saturn, its gleaming rings stretching out like cosmic jewelry, and wondered, Why does Saturn get to wear the bling? What about the…

When we gaze up at the night sky, what do we see? Tiny points of light, distant suns burning in the black. Yet we know that many of those stars…

In the vast, silent theater of space, a rare class of cosmic wanderers makes a fleeting appearance—interstellar objects (ISOs). These mysterious travelers are cosmic postcards from distant star systems, composed…

The universe is a grand, unfolding epic of creation and destruction, a stage where stars are born, live out brilliant lives, and die in cataclysms of unimaginable power. Among the…

Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing something is wrong. The stars seem to be shifting, strange gravitational anomalies are at play, and the solar system’s outer planets…

Deep in the vast blackness of space, where the rules of life and death play out on scales beyond human comprehension, stars—those brilliant beacons of light—engage in behaviors that seem…

Among the countless wonders of the universe, few events are as spectacular—or as terrifying—as hypernovae. These cosmic explosions release more energy in mere seconds than our Sun will produce in…

Imagine a future where humanity—or some distant, hyper-advanced civilization—has grown so powerful, so energy-hungry, that the meager output of an entire planet simply isn’t enough. Our cities sprawl across continents,…

Two years into its mission, the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is living up to its promise of unlocking the secrets of the cosmos. Launched on July 1, 2023,…

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was thriving in the Late Cretaceous Period. Dinosaurs roamed forests and plains. Giant marine reptiles dominated the seas. Flying reptiles called pterosaurs soared through the…

On a clear night, away from the glare of city lights, the sky transforms into a canvas dotted with thousands of shimmering stars. If you pay close attention—not just to…

Imagine a vast, icy realm, so distant from Earth that even light, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, would take nearly a year to get there. A dark, silent, cosmic…

Imagine one peaceful evening, you look up at the sky. The stars are twinkling, as they always do. But then, suddenly, a brilliant, blinding point of light erupts where there…

Since the dawn of humanity, we’ve asked the biggest question imaginable: Where did everything come from? When you look up at the night sky and see stars scattered like diamond…

Far beyond the blue sky, past the twinkling stars that decorate our night, beyond the reach of even the most powerful telescopes, there is a dance that has been unfolding…