Astronomers Spot “Impossible” Fifth Image Unlocking Dark Matter Secrets
A mysterious fifth image inside a rare Einstein Cross exposed a massive halo of dark matter, giving astronomers…
Silverpit Crater mystery solved: Asteroid crashed into the North Sea 43 million years ago
For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of…
Not Spiral. Not Elliptical. So What Exactly Is This Galaxy?
NGC 2775 blurs the line between spiral and elliptical galaxies, leaving astronomers debating its true identity. Hubble’s latest…
What Webb Is Teaching Us About Our Solar System
Episode description: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is hard at work answering our biggest questions about the birth…
The Hunt for Dark Matter Has a New, Surprising Target
Dark matter’s nature has long eluded scientists, but new theoretical and experimental advances are pointing to an unexpected…
First-Ever Simulations Reveal Ghost Particles Shapeshifting in Violent Neutron Star Mergers
New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts…
NASA’s Webb Just Revealed Something Astonishing in Saturn’s Atmosphere
Detections of near infrared emissions in Saturn’s ionosphere (left) show dark bead-like features embedded within bright aurora. In…
Full Black Hole Recoil Measurement
Researchers have, for the first time, tracked the recoil of a newborn black hole, revealing new insights into…
New Class of Ancient Star System Discovered Hiding in Our Galaxy
A globular cluster (white concentration of stars) naturally emerges in the high-resolution EDGE simulations. These simulations also predict…
Amateur Astronomers Help Track Asteroid To French Impact Site
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere…
A supernova may soon be visible in the sky
The universe continues to hold many surprises, as is the case with this interstellar visitor present in our…