On November 15, 2024, a faint but unmistakable spark appeared in the galaxy NGC 2146. At an apparent magnitude of…
Category: Astronomy
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…
Invisible Clumps of Dark Matter May Be Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard
Not far from our own corner of the Milky Way, something unseen may be quietly passing by. It leaves no…
James Webb Finds a Massive Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist Yet
When astronomers first spotted CEERS2-588, it appeared as a small, distant glow tucked deep into images from the early universe.…
Scientists Found the Building Blocks of Life Hiding in the Most Hostile Place Imaginable
For decades, one nearby galaxy kept its heart hidden. Wrapped in thick veils of gas and dust, the nucleus of…
The Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Might Actually Be a Giant Knot of Dark Matter
For decades, astronomers have spoken about the heart of the Milky Way with a kind of hushed certainty. Somewhere deep…
Dead Stars Are Helping Scientists Build the First Map of the Invisible Universe
For decades, astronomers have learned to read the universe through light. Radio waves revealed hidden galaxies. X-rays exposed violent cosmic…
Astronomers Finally Found the Smoking Gun for a 60 Year Old Mystery in Space
Most stars are creatures of habit. They circle the galaxy calmly, drifting along with their neighbors in a slow, predictable…
The James Webb Telescope Found a Massive Red Potato Hiding in the Early Universe
In the crowded, tangled architecture of the early universe, some places are meant to be loud with creation. Gas flows…
Scientists Think an Invisible Explosion From Before the First Stars Just Messaged Earth
In 2023, something extraordinary slipped quietly into Earth from the depths of space. It left no flash in the sky,…
Astronomers Finally Measured the Violent Winds Raging Around the Eye of a Black Hole
At the heart of almost every galaxy, including our own, lies something immense and unsettling: a supermassive black hole. Astronomers…
James Webb Found a Time Capsule Galaxy That Shouldn’t Exist in the Modern Universe
When astronomers point a telescope toward the deep universe, they are also looking back in time. In this case, that…
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…