When astronomers point a telescope toward the deep universe, they are also looking back in time. In this case, that…
Category: Astronomy
The James Webb Space Telescope Found a Cosmic Traffic Jam That Shouldn’t Exist Yet
The ocean covers most of our planet, yet it remains more mysterious than the Moon or Mars. Satellites have mapped…
General Relativity Is Throwing Planets Into a Dead Zone Where They Simply Cannot Survive
When astronomers look out into the galaxy, they see planets everywhere. Thousands upon thousands of exoplanets have been confirmed, most…
Scientists Discovered That Martian Soil Toxins Help Bacteria Grow Better Space Bricks
Mars has a way of humbling Earthly assumptions. What thrives in our familiar soil may struggle, or even fail, in…
Kepler’s Supernova: The Star That Exploded and Changed Humanity’s View of the Universe
In the autumn of 1604, the night sky performed a quiet miracle. In a familiar constellation that sailors, scholars, and…
This Sleeping Black Hole Suddenly Exploded Into the Most Powerful Gamma Ray State on Record
For more than a decade, a distant cosmic beacon sat in near silence, its immense power hidden behind a calm…
James Webb Reveals the Universe Grew Up Much Faster Than We Ever Imagined
The light arriving at the James Webb Space Telescope today began its journey almost as soon as the universe itself…
New Math Suggests Dyson Bubbles Can Stay Stable Using Only Gravity and Starlight
For as long as humans have looked up, the stars have invited imagination. Somewhere in that darkness, astronomers wonder, might…
Astronomers Have Finally Seen the Invisible Scaffolding That Shapes the Cosmos
For most of human history, the universe seemed built only from what our eyes could catch. Stars burned, galaxies spun,…
Scientists Finally Discovered the Elusive Carbon Stars That Were Missing From Our Closest Galactic Neighbor
For decades, astronomers have sifted through the faint fingerprints of stars, searching for the rare ones that carry stories from…
Scientists Discovered 400,000 Cosmic Secrets Hidden in 22 Years of X-Ray Data
Imagine a recording artist with a career so long and so rich that every performance, every improvisation, every subtle shift…
Astronomers Found the Largest Sulfur Molecule Ever Detected in Deep Space
In the cold, quiet reaches of space, far from planets and sunlight, chemistry still unfolds. Inside a vast molecular cloud…
This Ancient Planet Is Literally Being Stripped To Its Bones By Its Own Sun
It began, as so many planetary discoveries do, with a faint and persistent flicker in starlight. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
These Cosmic Time Travelers Are Staying Young by Sucking the Life Out of Their Neighbors
In the quiet depths of the Milky Way’s oldest star clusters, time is supposed to move in only one direction.…
Astronomers Found a Supermassive Black Hole Ignoring a Universal Speed Limit
Twelve billion years ago, when the universe was still young and galaxies were only beginning to take shape, a brilliant…
The Early Universe Was a Total Galaxy Factory Way Earlier Than We Thought
The early universe is often imagined as quiet and sparse, a vast darkness only beginning to flicker with the first…
Astronomers Finally Capture the Teenage Years of Planetary Systems Hidden for Billions of Years
For decades, astronomers have been assembling a family album of planetary systems. They have crisp baby pictures showing planets being…
This Peaceful Looking Galaxy Cluster Is Actually Hiding a Violent Secret
From a distance, Abell 3571 appears almost serene. Floating quietly in space, this vast galaxy cluster gives the impression of…
Saturn’s Moon Enceladus is Actively Cooking Up the Ingredients for Life
Far from Earth, wrapped in ice and circling Saturn in quiet obedience, Enceladus once seemed like just another frozen moon.…
The Mysterious Signal From 2.5 Billion Light Years Away is Not Alone
For years, fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have arrived like cosmic whispers—brief, brilliant flashes of radio light traveling billions of…
Scientists Discover a Giant Iron Structure 500 Times the Size of Pluto’s Orbit
For centuries, the Ring Nebula has felt reassuringly known. Hanging in the northern constellation of Lyra, it has been sketched,…
Massive Oceans of Glowing Liquid Stone May Be Hiding Inside Alien Super-Earths
Far beneath the imagined landscapes of distant worlds, beyond mountains no telescope can see and depths no probe has reached,…