Astronomers observe a massive star vanish and turn into a black hole
In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark.…
Is the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Actually a Massive Knot of Dark Matter? Sounds Crazy, But the Numbers Line Up
Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense…
7 Weird Space Phenomena That Only Make Sense if Dark Matter Exists
Dark matter is the invisible stuff making up around 85% of the universe’s mass. Like its name, dark…
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…
Lunar asteroid strike in 2032 could trigger moonquakes and meteor storms on Earth
Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking…
NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the…
NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries…
NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a…
AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive
A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived…
NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter’s Influence on Universe
With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and…
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera Unravels Mysteries of the Dark Universe
The Bullet Cluster is made up of two galaxy clusters that are colliding, one moving through the other,…
Dark Matter’s Earliest Moments May Have Been Far More Extreme Than We Thought
Dark matter map (2021) by the Dark Energy Survey using weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections…