Astronomers spot ‘jellyfish galaxy’ torn apart 8.5 billion years ago
Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape…
Scientists find a freezing cold “Earth”
From NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope data, an international science team has found a candidate exoplanet that is…
Scientists Identified A Gravitational Wave Detection That Is Nothing Like They Have Ever Seen Before, Sparking Discussion On What Might Have Caused It » TwistedSifter
Unsplash Just a decade ago we had no way to detect gravitational waves from deep in space, but…
Dark matter may consist of particles with different masses
Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot…
The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice
Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a…
Astronomers find clearest evidence yet of a dark matter subhalo near the Sun
Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden…
NASA spots colossal eruptions shaking Io — Jupiter’s most volcanic moon
NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On…
Scientists show how to narrow the hunt for merging giant black holes
Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that their motion can’t be…
Giant dark matter ‘sheet’ may shape galactic motion in the Milky Way
On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they…
Black hole ‘Jetty McJetface’ keeps brightening years after it shredded a star
A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a…
Particle accelerator helps reveal lost 2,000-year-old Greek star map
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first telescope was invented in…