New Measurements Show We May Live in a Giant “Cosmic Void”
New research suggests we may live in a vast cosmic void, a region with far fewer galaxies and…
These Stars Don’t Burn – They Annihilate Dark Matter
Mysterious “dark dwarfs” may glow eternally by burning invisible dark matter — and spotting them could finally crack…
Scientists Think This Star Could Be the Next Supernova
Red supergiant DFK 52 and its surroundings as seen by ALMA. The vast, complex bubble blown by this…
Scientists Create Liquid Carbon in the Lab for the First Time
Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser…
Can Dark Matter Turn Giant Planets Into Black Holes?
Exoplanets might hold hidden clues about dark matter. New research suggests these distant worlds could even collapse into…
What If the Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning? Supercomputers Search for Clues
By simulating Einstein’s equations under extreme conditions, researchers may finally glimpse what happened before the Big Bang. Credit:…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted 300 mysterious objects that may be some of the…
X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is…
This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object
At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found…
What happens when you cross the point of no return?
Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse…