NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way
A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James…
Dark Matter “Wind” May Finally Be Detectable With New Superconducting Tech
Using the improved superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD), researchers are searching for very light dark matter. Credit: UZH…
These Strange Stars Could Reveal the True Nature of Dark Matter
A newly proposed type of stellar object, called a dark dwarf, may be hiding in the heart of…
JWST May Have Found the Universe’s First Pristine Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope may have uncovered one of the Universe’s first galaxies, AMORE6, almost devoid of…
Caltech Physicists Discover “Double Helix,” a New Equilibrium State of Cosmic Plasma
The double helix nebula. The spots are infrared-luminous stars, mostly red giants and red supergiants. Many other stars…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
DESI Hints Dark Energy Isn’t What We Thought
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System
A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered…
Is the universe infinite? Scientists reveal how vast it really is..
One of the strongest indicators of this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint afterglow from the…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…