What is the Leonids Meteor Shower? An Astrophysicist Explains
Stargazers rejoice: The Leonids are here. This annual meteor shower lights up the night sky every November and…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Europe’s NewAthena telescope to detect supermassive black holes at the edge of the universe
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) future space observatory, the NewAthena telescope, could detect an unprecedented number of supermassive…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…
Even Dark Matter Can’t Catch a Break From Gravity, Study Suggests
There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85%…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope maps 400-light-year-distant planet in 3D, revealing heat so extreme it breaks water apart
An artistic depiction of the WASP-18b exoplanet (Image source: NASA) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has mapped the…
Our universe may have been born inside a black hole, study finds
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes…
The most violent event in the universe could be visible from Earth in less than 10 years
The universe is a vast place in which many cosmic events occur regularly. And in less than ten…
Two new black hole collisions confirm Einstein’s theory with record precision
For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal…
Historic Collaboration Suggests “Ghost Particles” Could Explain All of Existence
For decades, scientists have known that neutrinos—often called “ghost particles” for their near-massless, almost undetectable nature—defy easy explanation.…
Should we worry: Top physicists warn over mysterious object 3I/ATLAS reaching closest to Sun on October 29
A mysterious interstellar object discovered earlier this year, 3I/ATLAS, is set to reach its closest point to the…